IBM pledges $150B U.S. investment over five years, including $30B for mainframe and quantum-computer manufacturing and R&D
On 2025-04-28 IBM announced a plan to invest $150 billion in the United States over five years, of which more than $30 billion is allocated to research and development and domestic manufacturing of mainframes and quantum computers. IBM said it will continue building quantum systems in the U.S. and expand American-based quantum operations as part of an integrated develop-manufacture-deploy ecosystem.
Earmarking $30B explicitly toward U.S. quantum and mainframe manufacturing is a large, named capital commitment from the sector's most-deployed superconducting vendor, reinforcing IBM's roadmap and onshoring posture amid U.S. industrial-policy pressure.
A domestic quantum manufacturing build-out strengthens IBM's supply-chain control and could anchor U.S. quantum hardware sovereignty narratives, influencing federal procurement and competitor onshoring decisions.