Dutch company QuantWare says it has created a quantum processor architecture that can hold up to 10,000 qubits. If successful, that would be a jump of about 100 times compared to most existing quantum chips, which are stuck at a few dozen or hundreds of qubits.
Dutch company QuantWare says it has created a quantum processor architecture that can hold up to 10,000 qubits. If successful, that would be a jump of about 100 times compared to most existing quantum chips, which are stuck at a few dozen or hundreds of qubits.
As Interesting Engineering reports, QuantWare did not show a finished chip, but presented a new architecture that would allow such processors to be manufactured. The idea is to fit many more qubits on a single chip, rather than stitching together many smaller processors, as major players in the market are forced to do.
Today, even giants like Google and IBM are moving very slowly: over the years, they have managed to get to about 100–120 qubits per processor. Then there are the physical limitations: complex connectivity, cooling, errors, and the price of the equipment. Because of this, the industry has been talking about the potential of quantum computing for years, but real-world applications remain far away.
QuantWare proposes to simplify the design and scale up — that is, build one large chip, rather than a network of small ones. According to the company, the new architecture should provide more computing power for the same money and power consumption, as well as be suitable for various laboratories and startups working with superconducting qubits.
A separate bet is made on the combination of quantum and conventional computing. QuantWare is developing an open ecosystem that can be integrated with NVIDIA's classical GPU clusters. For developers, this means a "hybrid" computer scenario, where a quantum chip performs the most complex parts of the tasks, and conventional processors handle everything else.
To implement these plans, the company is preparing to launch its own Kilofab factory in Delft. It should be operational in 2026 and, according to QuantWare, will increase their quantum processor production capacity by 20 times. The startup promises to deliver the first chips based on the new architecture with support for up to 10,000 qubits to customers in 2028, and pre-orders are already open.
QuantWare believes that scaling to such sizes could finally open the way to "economically relevant" quantum computers - not demonstration prototypes, but machines capable of solving real problems in chemistry, materials science, or energy faster than classical supercomputers.
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