IBM To Acquire R&D Firm HRL Laboratories From Boeing And General Motors; Financial Terms Not Disclosed

Both Boeing and GM will continue to partner with IBM on quantum applications and advanced technology development following the transaction. HRL's advanced expertise in silicon-spin qubit engineering will complement and extend IBM’s long-term mission to scale increasingly powerful quantum computers and accelerate its quantum vision.  Superconducting qubits and spin qubits both leverage state-of-the art silicon fabrication. This shared foundation is amongst the reasons why these two modalities offer credible paths to scaling quantum technologies.

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