The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed nine non-binding letters of intent (LOIs) to allocate $2.013 billion in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. Administered by the CHIPS Research and Development Office, the capital injection establishes a national portfolio targeting advanced manufacturing, sovereign microelectronics innovation, and hardware optimization. The overarching strategic mandate seeks to build domestic semiconductor supply-chain resilience and secure national security infrastructure across five quantum computing modalities: neutral-atom, silicon-spin, superconducting, photonic, and trapped-ion. As a protective condition for the distribution of these federal funds, the U.S. Department of Commerce will obtain passive, minority non-controlling equity stakes in [...]

The grants include a massive $1 billion grant for IBM.

The US government plans to invest $2 billion in quantum computing firms while taking equity stakes, accelerating domestic quantum development with implications for crypto security.