$2 Billion CHIPS Act Investment in Quantum Bets on IBM’s 300mm Superconducting Silicon

Analyst(s): Brendan Burke

Publication Date: May 22, 2026

A $2 billion CHIPS quantum package spanning nine companies positions IBM’s 300mm Anderon foundry as the centerpiece of American quantum industrial policy, while spreading smaller bets across competing modalities including trapped ion, photonic, and neutral atom approaches.

What is Covered in this Article

• IBM’s creation of Anderon as a pure-play quantum foundry
• The 300mm fabrication bet versus 200mm CMOS alternatives
• U.S. government quantum industrial policy via CHIPS incentives
• Superconducting silicon’s iteration advantage over trapped ion approaches
• IBM’s ASIC control architecture enabling scalable fault-tolerant systems

The News: IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced on May 21, 2026, a Letter of Intent to establish Anderon, described as America’s first pure-play quantum chip foundry. The initiative is backed by proposed $1 billion in CHIPS incentives from the US Department of Commerce (DoC) and…