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Gambetta

American  
[gam-bet-uh, gahn-be-ta] / gæmˈbɛt ə, gɑ̃ bɛˈta /

noun

  1. Léon 1838–82, French statesman.


Gambetta British  
/ ɡɑ̃bɛta, ɡæmˈbɛtə /

noun

  1. Léon (leɔ̃). 1838–82, French statesman; prime minister (1881–82). He organized resistance during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) and was a founder of the Third Republic (1871)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jay Gambetta, director of IBM Research and IBM Fellow, described the NanoStack tech as a "landmark moment" for the future of chips.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

“We see quantum computing as the next technology. We’re going to manufacture quantum computers and Anderon is our foundry to scale that,” Gambetta told Barron’s.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Jay Gambetta, the director of research at IBM, commented positively on the executive orders in a Monday post on LinkedIn.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Anderon will be walled off from the rest of IBM, and plans to raise additional investment and sell silicon wafers to other quantum-computing firms, many of whom have already expressed interest, Gambetta said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

He will not, in my judgment, for one moment compare with Thomas Jefferson—with Alexander Hamilton—or, to come down to later times, with Gambetta; and he is immeasurably below such a man as Abraham Lincoln.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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