Earlier today, IBM, with support from the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced plans to create America's first pure-play quantum wafer foundry. The new company, Anderon, will be purpose-built to manufacture 300mm quantum wafer technology at the scale needed to power the global quantum industry. Quantum computing is the first new computing paradigm in more than 80 years, and it will let us solve problems in chemistry, materials, and optimization that are out of reach today. IBM has spent decades advancing the science and engineering of building quantum computers. We have deployed more than 90 quantum systems around the world, making this technology available to the broadest ecosystem of scientists, developers and creators. We have laid out a clear path to delivering the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. Our hope is that Anderon will be a catalyst to our mission of bringing quantum to an expansive community building the future of computing. The Department of Commerce and IBM are each contributing $1 billion towards Anderon, in addition to the significant intellectual property, infrastructure, and people IBM is contributing to help launch it. This is just the start. Our path on quantum is clear, and today we’re taking an important new step forward. https://lnkd.in/dSQYvuHQ
Today’s announcement of #Anderon is more than a new company — it’s a strategic inflection point for the U.S. semiconductor and quantum industries. IBM’s decision to stand up a dedicated 300mm quantum wafer foundry, supported by CHIPS incentives and a billion‑dollar internal investment, demonstrates the scale of commitment required to lead globally in next‑generation computing. IBM has long been at the forefront of quantum R&D, but this move cements its role at the center of a rapidly expanding ecosystem. By providing secure, U.S.‑based quantum wafer manufacturing for multiple hardware vendors, Anderon will accelerate innovation, strengthen national security, and help unlock the projected $850B economic opportunity ahead. A landmark moment for #IBM — and for the future of American technology leadership.
Imagine your lock changes every 50 milliseconds. Not the key — the entire lock. By the time anyone tries to pick it, the lock they were picking no longer exists. That is TRSP. Every cryptographic system today — your bank, your phone, your government — uses a key that exists until someone breaks it. Quantum computers are learning to break those keys faster than ever. The solution the entire industry is building: harder mathematics. TRSP asks a different question entirely. What if the key simply didn't exist long enough to be broken? Layer 1 rotates every 10–100 milliseconds from physical hardware noise. Layer 3 CRATON generates a one-time commitment from the unique physical state of your device at that exact moment — used once, permanently destroyed. No stored value. No target. Breaking TRSP would not be a security breach. It would be proof that time itself is reversible — one of the most significant physics discoveries in recorded history Four security dimensions: temporal rotation, geometric distance barrier, orbital satellite isolation, dynamic topology unpredictability. No known attack addresses all four simultaneously https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trsp-temporal-rotation-security-protocol-first-whose-known-mehmetaj-amsjf/
Anderon is one of the most consequential announcements in the quantum space — and the structure deserves careful analysis. Spinning off a pure-play quantum wafer foundry is IBM decoupling manufacturing infrastructure from the application layer. A standalone entity can attract different capital, form independent partnerships, and move with the urgency quantum commercialization now demands — unconstrained by IBM's broader enterprise roadmap. The U.S. Department of Commerce backing is strategically significant. It positions Anderon not just as a commercial venture, but as part of America's sovereign quantum industrial base — similar to how TSMC investments are framed through a national security lens. Quantum wafer fabrication is to the next computing era what semiconductor fabs were to the last one. For the ecosystem: a dedicated quantum foundry means the infrastructure layer decouples from any single vendor's hardware roadmap. That's healthier and accelerates quantum as a general-purpose compute platform. IBM is playing a long game. The question is whether the timeline to quantum advantage for commercial workloads compresses fast enough. Bold bet.
Historically significant moment for the quantum industry and for U.S. technology leadership more broadly. This feels like one of the next foundational technology chapters. Important to see IBM continuing to invest in the long-term ecosystem required to move quantum computing from research leadership to scalable commercial reality. Washington State also has a major opportunity here. With its technology talent, research institutions, and cloud infrastructure base, WA should be investing now to become a meaningful quantum hub, with implications extending into advanced manufacturing, infrastructure, and commercial real estate development.
Arvind Krishna, Godspeed to you and team IBM!
If megacorporations like IBM receive welfare, it's called "grants" and "support". What's the government's interest in this "quantum computing"?
What stood out to me here isn’t [the obvious point], but [the deeper idea]. Historically, major shifts only become real when [the enabling layer] scales alongside innovation. This suggests we may be moving from [old stage] to [new stage]. It’s interesting to think that the competitive advantage may shift from [current advantage] to [future advantage]. Great milestone 👏
Congratulations Arvind Krishna Jay Gambetta Mukesh Khare. Good for quantum, good for the U.S.
Advancing quantum from research to reality. 👏