Honeywell spinoff aims to make Broomfield the hub of ‘Quantum Front Range’

BROOMFIELD — California has Silicon Valley, and soon Colorado could be the home of the Quantum Front Range.

Quantinuum, a company newly spun out of Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON), aims to make Broomfield the center of gravity of quantum computing.

The company formed with the newly closed merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions, formerly a division within the parent company, with U.K.-based Cambridge Quantum Computing.

Quantinuum is hitting the ground running with the planned release next month of its first product: a cybersecurity platform. 

Next year, the company plans to release quantum-computing software applicable to industries such as pharmaceuticals, materials science, specialty chemicals and…