India, Oct. 28 -- Intel Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Classiq, a leading provider of quantum computing software.

The combination of Classiq's synthesis platform with Intel's spin-qubit manufacturing and existing software would create a user-friendly full-stack quantum computing platform, enabling the promising technology to mature into a mainstream computing business.

More than 40 years ago, the invention of electronic design automation (EDA) and computer-aided design (CAD) software transformed silicon chip design and classical computing by providing a common software platform that could abstract the ability to design chips from the complexity of the underlying hardware.

Classiq plays a similar role in quantu...