Seattle: Home of grunge, Starbucks… and now, a quantum computer manufacturing plant
IonQ plans to open a quantum computer manufacturing plant - the first on US soil it claims - as part of broader plans to invest $1 billion into an expansion in the Pacific Northwest region over the next decade.
The plant will be situated at Bothell, part of the Seattle metropolitan area in Washington state. This facility will house the company's expanding research & development and manufacturing teams, IonQ says, as they develop systems to meet"continued customer demand." The new location will also house IonQ's second quantum datacenter, following one at its College Park HQ, Maryland, and is expected to become the primary production engineering location for IonQ in North America.
IonQ's quantum technology is based on trapped ions manipulated by laser beams, rather than the semiconductor-based, superconducting qubits adopted by many other companies in the fledgling industry. It was also the first pure-play quantum computing startup to go public in 2021, merging with dMY Technology Group, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
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