IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

Interesting. My observation on IBM is their entire business model is:

1 - Audit your customers

2 - Buy back shares

3 - Force early retirements

It was easy to see why Watson failed in that environment. The revenue was “We’ll let you out of the $6mm audit bill if you buy $2mm of Watson”. Companies would agree, install better asset management, and never put Watson into production.

I couldn’t imagine Quantum Comouting surviving there. Spinning it off the best play.

Seems like tacit acknowledgment that IBM mothership is not the right place for a speculative growth play from both a management and capital perspective.

I’m not IBMologist but I do remember how IBM pushed Watson when it was clear that upper management had no idea what Watson actually was. Regardless of the viability of the underlying technology, it’s best to keep such things away from the consultants.

Also, article is very difficult to read. Bad typeface, spacing, coherence and prose. I found the press release less strained.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/ibm-and-u-s-department-of-commerce-...

First? Europeans are already producing quantum processors at research scale, soon industrial scale.

https://quantware.com/news/quantware-raises-178-million

This is a pro-IBM piece.

I'm surprised it has zero mention of potential advantages of trapped ion despite being superior on stability windows, accuracy, and operating temps.

I also appreciate the disclosure about AI generated content, but this article gets too repetitive.

The real story isn't the $2B. It's that the foundry is standalone, so other quantum hardware companies can use it. Shared infrastructure beats nine separate research cleanrooms.

A bailout for a company that stopped innovating and instead has been inventing new ways to create middle management and bureaucracy.

So much for capitalism.

Can the chips they plan to make there run Shor?

Two questions:

-do the chips help with inference?

-can you run Doom on the chips?

The article talks about IBM spreading bets to other techniques. Reminds me to ponder again. Has Microsoft retracted their sketchy quantum claims about inventing new states of matter in the past year? https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2025/03/12/microsofts-qu...

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