The US government is betting $300 million that quantum computing's real problem is manufacturing, not software

The US government is betting $300 million that quantum computing's real problem is manufacturing, not software

US Commerce allocates $300M to D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum via CHIPS Act for quantum hardware manufacturing, taking minority stakes. The pivot from lab research to commercial scaling signals that manufacturing infrastructure and cryogenic supply chains, not software, are quantum computing's critical bottleneck.