Big tech companies are not sleeping on quantum chips: introducing Amazon web services Ocelot;Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, willow. But while all of this can be considered groundbreaking, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements—they are making progress.
Founded in 2020, a Dutch startup Quantitative It is one of them, claiming that the hardware it has made has already provided quantum computers to customers in 20 countries. Its core offers, vertical integration and optimization, or VIO focuses on bottlenecks in quantum machining units (QPUs).
Everyone in the quantum computing field is fighting for more qubits, the equivalent of quantum quantums – but integrating more qubits on a single chip is more powerful and more prone to errors than networking several smaller systems. Ventware’s proprietary 3D chip architecture, Vio,Missing link to extend QPU”, according to its CEO Matthijs Rijlaarsdam.
one spin Quantwave’s Qutech Qutech and its affiliated institute have now raised €20 million in A (approximately $19.27 million), including the €5 million stock portion of €7.5 million IT Have been ensured before Start with the European Commission for Innovation 6 million euros seed wheel (The rest is a grant).
In addition to European funds, the all-share round is led by the Dutch state-owned entity Invest-NL Deep Technology Fund and Innovation Quarter, the Regional Economic Development Agency. The growth of the Netherlands quantum ecosystem.
New funding will be used to expand quantitative teams and technologies, which were also recently updated: in February, the startup announced it will accept pre-orders For the objectionits first QPU for quantum error correction.
Although Google’s Willow processor brings quantum error correction to the attention, quantization aims to adopt a roadmap-centric strategy. It is designed to upgrade to a larger Vio-driven QPU, as well as Andlalto-A Notorious It’s “almost twice as much as the competitive solution commercially available”.
Large tech companies also compete to see who has the largest QPU, the most. But from a startup perspective, adventures can’t survive for a long time without revenue, and the competition also involves making quantum hardware commercially accessible to everyone – faster.
In this regard, Quantware is pursuing two avenues: distributing its own design QPU and allowing other companies to use its technology through its casting and packaging services. New funds will also be deployed in both directions – further development of VIO and establishing its chip manufacturing facilities.
In addition to research institutions, users include several well-funded quantum startups, such as Alice & Bob, which have recently raised $104 million. Two of them – quantum machines, raised $170 million last monthand seeqc,Announce $30 million in January – Too On-the-job Development of technologies and products related to Dutch startups.
It is too early to say which of these companies (if any) is. Microsoft also participated in this game. Estimated Its Majorana announced that it would “horizon” “in a few years rather than a few decades”.
Rijlaarsdam told TechCrunch that the danger is the ability of quantum to solve meaningful industrial scale problems.
“There is a huge and valuable problem that even gigawatt AI clusters can’t solve, but quantum computers will solve it too,” he said. “That’s why we are building these systems. Some examples include computing for quantum systems, such as creating better materials, discovering new catalysts to break down microplastics or improving the sustainability of fertilizers.”
But for the quantification of faith Quantum open architecturethe question is not who will build these million Qubit systems; with VIO, it just wants to play a role in pushing it to happen quickly.
