SoftBank’s Vision Fund Eyes Investment in Quantum Computing
- Firm wants to fund creation of "de facto industry standard"
- SoftBank’s Nyatta worries technology still too immature
Integrated circuits sit on an Embedded Wafer Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) circuit board at the Infineon Technologies AG microchip and sensor manufacturing facility in Regensburg, Germany, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. Infineon designs, manufactures and markets semiconductors for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer and security electronics sectors.
Photo Illustration: Tom Hall/BloombergSoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is scouting for possible investments in quantum computing, an experimental science being researched by companies such as Google and IBM to succeed current computer processor technology.
Shu Nyatta, who helps invest money for the fund, said the group wanted to find and back the company whose quantum computing hardware or software that runs atop it would become the “de facto industry standard.”