Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger spoke at the White House Jan. 21 to announce that Intel will spend $20 billion on new manufacturing hub in Ohio. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
From optimizing transportation to applications in fighting COVID-19, the new institute includes a national laboratory hoped to encourage interdisciplinary research.
A miniaturized ion trap for the simultaneous use of different ion strings for quantum information processing. (Institute of High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna / Flickr)
As the federal government and the tech industry try to develop powerful computers that harness the quirks of quantum physics, they are also looking to build a…