--- title: "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry" url: https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-spins-off-the-first-pure-play-quantum-chip-foundry-4wqvudejh source_url: https://futurumgroup.com/insights/2-billion-chips-act-investment-in-quantum-bets-on-ibms-300mm-superconducting-silicon type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-05-25T17:19:03.940Z updated: 2026-05-25T17:20:02.069Z tags: ["quantum-computing", "ibm"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a Letter of Intent to establish Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum chip foundry, backed by $1 billion in CHIPS Act incentives and $1 billion from IBM. Anderon will operate as a standalone 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility in Albany, New York, focusing initially on superconducting qubit wafers. This is the largest allocation within a broader $2 billion CHIPS quantum package distributed across nine companies, including GlobalFoundries ($375M) and seven others ($38M–$100M each) pursuing alternative modalities like trapped ion, photonic, and neutral atom. The 300mm approach offers a 30x device output advantage over 200mm alternatives, enabling faster iteration cycles. IBM is also developing four custom ASICs for quantum control infrastructure targeting a 2029 convergence point. The funding structure creates a two-tier quantum ecosystem, concentrating manufacturing-scale capital in superconducting silicon while treating other modalities as venture-scale research bets, potentially shaping which quantum approaches survive the transition to commercial scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#quantum-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/quantum-computing), [#ibm](https://daily.dev/tags/ibm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-spins-off-the-first-pure-play-quantum-chip-foundry-4wqvudejh)