{"id":1025705,"date":"2026-08-03T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025705"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:15:50","slug":"ftc-approves-ionqs-1-8-billion-acquisition-of-skywater-semiconductor-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/ftc-approves-ionqs-1-8-billion-acquisition-of-skywater-semiconductor-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC approves IonQ&#8217;s $1.8 billion acquisition of SkyWater semiconductor \u200dfoundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared quantum computing firm IonQ&#8217;s $1.8 billion acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater Technology after the agency&#8217;s leaders disagreed over whether \u200cto \u2060impose conditions, they \u2060said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement that he had proposed requiring IonQ to agree to granting fair access to rival quantum computing \u2060companies, some \u200cof whom have ongoing contracts with SkyWater, among other \u2060measures to protect competition as the U.S. adds chip manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared quantum computing firm IonQ&#8217;s $1.8 billion acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater Technology after the agency&#8217;s leaders disagreed over whether \u200cto \u2060impose conditions, they \u2060said on Friday. Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement that he had proposed requiring IonQ to agree to granting fair access to rival quantum computing \u2060companies, some \u200cof whom have ongoing contracts with SkyWater, among other \u2060measures to protect competition as the U.S. adds chip manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025733,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025705\/revisions\/1025733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}