{"id":988112,"date":"2026-01-28T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988112"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:40:03","slug":"ionq-to-buy-skywater-for-1-8-billion-to-expand-hardware-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/ionq-to-buy-skywater-for-1-8-billion-to-expand-hardware-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"IonQ to buy SkyWater for $1.8 billion to expand hardware capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing firm IonQ said \u200don Monday it would buy chipmaker SkyWater Technology for about $1.8 billion, in a \u2060deal that would bring semiconductor manufacturing in-house and boost the development of its next-generation quantum processors. <\/p>\n<p>The cash-and-stock deal will allow IonQ to secure its supply chain \u200cby taking \u200ccontrol of its own chip production, ensuring a steady supply of advanced technology as \u200cit scales up its work supporting federal and defense sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing firm IonQ said \u200don Monday it would buy chipmaker SkyWater Technology for about $1.8 billion, in a \u2060deal that would bring semiconductor manufacturing in-house and boost the development of its next-generation quantum processors. The cash-and-stock deal will allow IonQ to secure its supply chain \u200cby taking \u200ccontrol of its own chip production, ensuring a steady supply of advanced technology as \u200cit scales up its work supporting federal and defense sectors.<\/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-988112","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\/988112","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=988112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}