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The U.S. Government Awards $2 Billion in Quantum Manufacturing Incentives to Key Industry Players

The U.S. Department of Commerce issued letters of intent to provide $2.013 billion in federal incentives for domestic quantum manufacturing. The administration announced that the funding will be distributed among several key companies, with the largest awards going to GlobalFoundries and IBM.

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GlobalFoundries received a $375 million grant to build domestic manufacturing capacity, while IBM received a $1 billion award to build Anderon, the world's first pure-play quantum foundry. In addition to the manufacturing giants, the administration announced $100 million in planned funding for three specific quantum stocks: Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantinuum. Rigetti Computing will use the funds to accelerate superconducting quantum research and improve technical bottlenecks. D-Wave Quantum will utilize the money to develop and scale its annealing and gate-model systems. Quantinuum will use the proceeds to work with GlobalFoundries and Monarch Quantum to improve its supply chain for trapped-ion systems. Most recipients of the funding are required to accept a minority, non-controlling equity stake for the U.S. Department of Commerce as a condition of the grants.

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