QuantWare Raises €20M to Scale Quantum Computing with 3D Chip Technology

QuantWare Raises €20M to Scale Quantum Computing with 3D Chip Technology

Big tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements — and they are making progress. Image : Google Founded in 2020, Dutch startup QuantWare is one of these, which claims that the hardware it manufactures already powers quantum computers for customers in 20 countries. Its core offering, VIO, focuses on scaling bottlenecks in quantum processing units (QPUs). Everyone in the quantum computing field is striving for more qubits, the quantum equivalent of bits — but integrating more qubits on a single chip is more powerful and less error-prone than networking several smaller systems together. QuantWare’s proprietary 3D chip architecture, VIO, “is the missing link in scaling up QPUs,” according to its CEO, Matthijs Rijlaarsdam. A spinout of TU Delft and its affiliated research institute, QuTec…