US executive orders push for a commercially relevant quantum computer by 2028

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Two executive orders just landed aiming to spur commercially relevant quantum machines by the end of the term and to speed up government readiness against quantum enabled attacks. The post quantum crypto readiness timeline got moved to 2031 from the previous 2035. That is a four year jump which is not nothing for a government migration

There is real money behind it. The earlier grant program is sending a billion to IBM, 375 million to GlobalFoundries, and 100 million each to companies like D-Wave, Rigetti, and Infleqtion. The government takes equity stakes in return which is an unusual structure for this kind of research funding

The order also envisions quantum sensors and networks deployed across agencies and eventually a machine delivered to the Energy Department national labs. The White House would not name which companies it is working with on the actual computers though, which leaves a lot of vague space. Vague plus deadlines is a familiar combination

My read is that the 2028 commercial target is aspirational marketing and the 2031 crypto readiness date is the one that actually matters. Even Nvidia leadership has been careful about calling near term quantum viability. Still, throwing billions at domestic manufacturing and setting hard dates does force the ecosystem to move

Trump signs executive orders to drive development offinance.yahoo.com