Intel plans to maintain Classiq’s support for competing quantum hardware while exploring manufacturing and component partnerships with other quantum companies.
Intel, a pioneer in quantum computing, has been relatively quiet about its technology and nearly silent about how it is pursing commercialization.
The chipmaker’s agreement to buy the Israeli quantum software company would bring together its silicon-based quantum processors, control electronics and existing software with tools designed to make quantum computers easier to program.
The resulting quantum program would flow into Intel’s software for translating and running calculations that combine quantum and conventional computing.
Manufacturing Advantage, Timelines Intel’s manufacturing proposition rests on using much of its existing semiconductor infrastructure to make quantum devices.