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A dark steel precision caliper with its scale marked in billions of dollars - $2B, $4B, $6B, $8B, $10B - measuring a glowing cyan qubit lattice held in its jaws.
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IBM Discloses $10 Billion Quantum Investment Plan as 2029 Fault-Tolerance Target Comes Into Focus

IBM told investors it plans to spend more than $10 billion on quantum over five years. Annualized, that is roughly twice the U.S. federal QIS R&D budget, but the figure is a blended forward-looking plan, not a booked balance-sheet item.

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SCN Staff·
Close-up of a fiber-optic array being aligned with a photonic chip held in a precision metal fixture during lab assembly of Cisco's Universal Quantum Switch prototype.
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The Switch That Doesn't Collapse the Qubit

Cisco's research prototype and DARPA's 19-team backbone program together define what the first-generation network layer of a quantum-classical hybrid actually looks like, and what still doesn't work.

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SCN Staff·
Close-up Shot of Silicon Wafer at Advanced Semiconductor Foundry
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EU Launches SPINS Quantum Pilot Line to Manufacture Spin Qubit Chips

Led by imec and backed by the Chips Joint Undertaking, SPINS aims to prove that semiconductor fabs, not research labs, are where quantum computing finally scales. Ten countries and three silicon platforms, all betting on spin.

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SCN Staff·