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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office announced today the signing of a final R&D award under the CHIPS and Science Act of up to $100 million to Atom Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company. The R&D funded by this award will accelerate several strategic R&D initiatives for the development of semiconductors and related technology supporting utility scale, commercially useful neutral-atom-based quantum computers, including hardware development and systems integration needed to manipulate, control, and address tens of thousands of qubits, and validate their performance.
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