IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce plan to create Anderon, America’s first pure-play quantum chip foundry, backed by $1 billion in CHIPS incentives and $1 billion from IBM.
Anderon is intended to be a standalone 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility headquartered in Albany, New York.
The $2 billion CHIPS quantum package is being distributed across nine companies, with IBM receiving the largest share.
GlobalFoundries is set to receive $375 million, while D-Wave, Rigetti, Infleqtion, Atom Computing, PsiQuantum, and Quantinuum are each slated for $100 million.
Diraq is receiving $38 million as part of the broader quantum funding package.
The article frames U.S. quantum policy as a deliberate industrial bet on IBM’s 300mm superconducting silicon manufacturing approach.
IBM’s 300mm fabrication strategy is presented as much faster than 200mm alternatives, with claims of up to 30x higher device production speed.
Superconducting silicon is said to have a manufacturing advantage over trapped-ion systems because it can use existing semiconductor tooling and automated wafer-fabrication infrastructure.
Funding for non-superconducting quantum approaches is described as smaller equity-style support rather than infrastructure investment, implying they are viewed as less fabrication-ready.
IBM’s ASIC control architecture is highlighted as a key enabler for scalable fault-tolerant quantum systems.

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