Will have a 10-qubit QPU on deployment

Questions over whether company has produced chips for sanctioned Huawei

Optical networking vendor is planning fabs in California and Pennsylvania

Funding will support construction of facilities in North Carolina and New York

Restrictions would be in the interest of national security

Has already held talks with Italian counterpart

President Biden signed the bill into law this week

Chips will be used for military applications

Funding awarded under Small Business Innovation Research program

Advanced chips will be used for US defense operations

Tender documents for the Alice Recoque state it will be “replacing Joliot-Curie”

System was most powerful supercomputer in the world when first installed

Job cuts at odds with CHIPS Act aim of growing semiconductor workforce

Will focus on technologies that are energy efficient

Follows similar move made by other countries

Two countries also agreed to collaborate on digital technologies and skills

Includes reducing trade restrictions and increasing the sector’s skilled workforce

Will be used to advance climate modeling

Will help to develop substrates, device layers, and junctions

Chinese officials have reportedly claimed access to minerals could be restricted

Prime Minister Dick Schoof unlikely to renew licenses when they expire at the end of the year

However, terms and conditions do apply

Price of minerals has nearly doubled since sanctions came into force

Facility expected to be operational in 2027