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The government has taken stakes in startups like Kraken, Wayve and Oxford Quantum Circuits in recent weeks, in a bid to prevent them from moving out of the country to look for funding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Circuits dismissed the Supreme Court’s emergency orders as “not dispositive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

D-Wave Quantum is acquiring Quantum Circuits, a quantum computing developer, for $550 million.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

OmniVision Integrated Circuits, a fabless semiconductor design company, and GigaDevice Semiconductor, an integrated circuit design house for a diverse range of chips, are looking to raise over HK$4.0 billion each via their respective IPOs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

“Here. Circuits have been jammed all morning, but maybe your luck’s better than mine.”

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers