The agency behind the world’s first quantum computing system-on-a-chip, is putting in the UK’s first-of-its-kind cross-qubit scaling platform on the Nationwide Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Oxfordshire, UKTN can reveal.
SEEQC’s digital chip-based expertise, powered by its Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) structure, will energy the core of the cross-qubit platform at NQCC’s Harwell Campus. SEEQC will develop and check the applied sciences and provide chain methods wanted to enhance quantum effectivity, construct scalable architectures and parts and develop UK quantum experience.
New York-based SEEQC mentioned the set up marks a pivotal development for the corporate and helps the drive to shift from analysis and experimentation to scaling and industrialisation.
Minister for Funding Baroness Gustafsson mentioned: “SEEQC’s set up marks a major step ahead within the UK’s journey to be a number one quantum-enabled economic system by 2033.
“This an thrilling second for the UK’s quantum sector and our upcoming Industrial Technique is not going to solely assist foster innovation within the business however ship long-term, steady progress, supporting our Plan for Change.”
Dr Matthew Hutchings, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at SEEQC, mentioned: “Our scaling Platform is a game-changer for quantum industrialisation.
“It’s not nearly including extra qubits – it’s about constructing the software program platform, infrastructure, provide chains, and applied sciences wanted to take quantum methods from lab experiments to scalable, enterprise-ready methods.”
Based in 2019, SEEQC has change into a go-to accomplice for a number of the business’s largest gamers, together with NVIDIA, BASF, BAH and NASA. The corporate lately raised $30 million in funding, bringing its whole raised to $62 million.
The NQCC, a brand new nationwide quantum facility that may home 12 quantum computer systems, was formally opened by Science Minister Lord Vallance in October final 12 months.
Every of the brand new quantum computer systems on the 4,000 sq. meter facility have been designed to push the boundaries of what’s doable with the rising expertise. It’s going to home a variety of quantum computing platforms, uniquely providing open entry to business, academia, and different sectors throughout the UK, with greater than 70 employees and 30 PhD studentships.
The UK is dwelling to the second-largest quantum sector globally, with greater than 100 privately-owned quantum computing firms.
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