Intel Develops Silicon Spin Qubits With 70 Staff as CEO Backs Classiq After $200 Million Funding
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Updated · CTech · Sep 27
Intel Develops Silicon Spin Qubits With 70 Staff as CEO Backs Classiq After $200 Million Funding
1 articles · Updated · CTech · Sep 27
Summary
Intel has about 70 people working on quantum computing, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan saying the company is developing silicon spin qubits and testing whether they can be made in Intel fabs.
That manufacturing test is central to Intel’s five- to 10-year strategy: Tan said the industry still has no winning architecture, but scalable mass production could become Intel’s edge over startups.
Tan is also backing Israeli software startup Classiq, which builds hardware-agnostic quantum application tools rather than processors and aims to become a quantum equivalent of Cadence.
Classiq has raised as much as $200 million, including a $110 million Series C in 2025, underscoring Tan’s view that software, control systems and applications will matter alongside qubit hardware.
Intel is framing quantum as an early but potentially major computing shift, with Tan pointing to chemistry and medicine use cases while stressing that the field’s ultimate winner remains undecided.