Announcing Anderon's First Superconducting Quantum PDK

Anderon, a quantum foundry spun out of IBM and backed by CHIPS funding, has released a process design kit for superconducting qubit chips on a 300 mm wafer line. The kit gives third-party developers standardized building blocks for qubits, I/O, amplifiers, and filters, along with a reference design for coherence validation.

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What this could mean

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Within two years, fabless quantum hardware startups could use Anderon's PDK and reference design to move from in-house fabrication to outsourced 300 mm production, using the coherence-validation block as a pre-tapeout benchmark.
Standardized blocks and a known coherence reference lower the risk of a first foundry run. CHIPS backing implies available capacity, and the 300 mm line offers a scale that small labs cannot replicate on their own.

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