NEWS & INSIGHTS

The FTC sent both IonQ and SkyWater a formal information request on April 24, extending the regulatory review and putting the planned Q2/Q3 2026 close at risk. The deal pays…

SkyWater is not just an acquisition target, it is the entire manufacturing plan. IonQ needs SkyWater's semiconductor fabrication facility to build its next-generation chip-based quantum systems in-house rather than depending…

SkyWater shareholders are being asked to wait on a government review while the stock component of what they are owed gets smaller every month, that is not a routine regulatory…

IonQ/SkyWater deal announcement, $1.8B value, January 26, 2026: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819974/000119312526021614/d20158d425.htm IonQ stock down 26.1% in June 2026: https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/03/why-ionq-stock-plummeted-261-in-june/ Merger agreement dated January 25, 2026 (proxy summary): https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/IONQ/8-k-ion-q-inc-reports-material-event-95659c3f0160.html

Quantinuum priced 28 million Class A shares at $60 on June 4, raising $1.68 billion on a 20x oversubscribed book, opening at $68 and closing flat on day one. The…

This is the first major pure-play trapped-ion company to go public since IonQ, and the valuation it commands over the next 90 days will function as a real-time benchmark for…

Quantinuum Form S-1, Initial Filing -- SEC EDGAR, May 9, 2026 Quantinuum Form S-1/A, Amendment No. 2 (final pricing) -- SEC EDGAR, June 1, 2026 Quantinuum closes flat in Nasdaq…

D-Wave will receive $1,566,250 of a larger $4 million NSF grant to Yale-led ERASE, a fault-tolerant quantum computing project. The grant flows through D-Wave's Quantum Circuits, LLC subsidiary, but ERASE…

This isn't a new government endorsement of D-Wave, it's a pre-existing Yale relationship that came bundled with the QCI acquisition, and D-Wave's annealing business has nothing to do with it.…

D-Wave is taking credit for a Yale partnership it bought, not built, and the press release's "deepens D-Wave's relationship with Yale" framing erases that QCI had this relationship before D-Wave…

Sources D-Wave to Receive $1.5 Million Grant Through NSF Project to Strengthen U.S. Quantum Computing Leadership — BusinessWire, June 30, 2026 - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260630098255/en/D-Wave-to-Receive-$1.5-Million-Grant-Through-NSF-Project-to-Strengthen-U.S.-Quantum-Computing-Leadership A new vision for quantum computing takes…

President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22. The first directs the Department of Energy to deploy a large-scale quantum computer by 2028 under a new program called QC-ADDS.…

The 2030 PQC migration mandate creates a time-bound government procurement cycle for post-quantum cryptography products, a direct commercial catalyst for any company with QKD, PQC, or cryptographic offerings. The QC-ADDS…

The encryption order matters now and benefits cybersecurity companies, the quantum computer order is a directive to make a plan, and the names that actually matter will not appear until…

EO 14413 full text (White House): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/ushering-in-the-next-frontier-of-quantum-innovation/ EO 14412 full text (White House): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/

Microsoft announced Majorana 2 on June 2, a 12-qubit topological quantum chip using a lead-based superconducting materials stack, claiming a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds and a 1,000-fold improvement…

If the topological approach actually works at scale, Microsoft could eventually put millions of qubits on a single chip, a manufacturing advantage no other approach can match. But that upside…

A 12-qubit result announced via preprint rather than peer review, from a company whose prior topological paper is still under journal investigation, is not a breakthrough until independent physicists can…

Science News — "Microsoft's quantum chip got an upgrade. Critics are still skeptical" (June 2, 2026): https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microsoft-quantum-chip-upgrade-majorana Scientific American — "Microsoft's upgraded Majorana quantum computing chip fizzles with physicists" (June…