Anderon

Anderon LLC is a company owned by IBM that operates a 300-millimeter quantum wafer foundry in Albany, New York. According to IBM, it works as a pure-play foundry that offers quantum wafer manufacturing to customers across the ecosystem, and its wafers support superconducting qubit arrays, quantum input/output signaling and readout signal chain components. IBM says Anderon plans to expand to other quantum modalities in the future.

On September 16, 2026, Anderon announced that it had finalized a $1 billion award under the CHIPS and Science Act with the US Department of Commerce. The award had been announced in May under a letter of intent. IBM says Anderon is backed by an additional $1 billion investment from IBM, and that the first quantum wafers are now running through its manufacturing facility. The Commerce notice describes the award as up to $1 billion for semiconductor R&D and the establishment of a new quantum semiconductor foundry.

Outlook (analysis)

Analysis: this section is DesignQuantum^™'s editorial reading of the company's own stated plans and published results. It is not a forecast of share prices or returns.

Anderon positions itself as a merchant foundry for the quantum industry. The analyst firm Futurum noted in September that no external customer had been named since May and that the open question is demand rather than funding. The signals to watch are named customers beyond IBM, new modalities beyond superconducting wafers, and disclosure of the award's milestones.

Informational only. Not investment advice. Quantum technology investments are speculative and can lose value.