Quantum computing is an emerging field that is gaining in popularity fast.
Quantum computing is still relatively new and has a lot of potential, with projections that it will be worth a staggering amount by the end of 2030. Major companies like Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft focus on quantum computing to solve their most pressing issues and stay ahead of the curve.
Even though we are still quite a way off from having viable use cases for quantum computing, quantum computing hardware companies are making great strides in this direction.
Despite hardware still having a long way to go, this article provides an overview of some of the best quantum computing hardware companies or startups. So let’s have a look at them producing innovative quantum computer hardware.
Delft circuits
Delft Circuits is a startup focusing on quality control in the electronics industry. Their mission is to help businesses achieve lasting success by providing the tools they need to ensure their products are of the highest quality possible.
They do this through three main pillars: Quality assurance, product testing, and certification.
Quality assurance ensures that all products undergo rigorous tests before reaching consumers or customers’ end users. Product testing helps businesses ensure that their products meet specific requirements (for example, safety or performance), and certification grants companies official recognition for meeting particular standards.
This assures customers that the product meets certain specifications and gives Delft Circuits a leg up when competing against other QC startups. With years of experience under their belts, Delft Circuits knows what it takes to help businesses succeed. So if you’re looking for reliable quality control services in the electronic industry, look no further than Delft Circuits!
Delft Circuits’ product line includes the Cri/oFlex®, a monolithic microwave cryogenic cabling solution.
Archer Materials
Archer Materials is a company specializing in developing and manufacturing materials that can be used in quantum technology. They have shifted from its original business model in minerals exploration to its current focus in materials technology.
The quantum computing hardware company uses materials incorporating carbon-based qubits, graphene-enhanced biosensors, and graphitic battery anodes to build its quantum computers. The company boasts a diverse advanced materials inventory, a solid intellectual property portfolio, world-class expertise, and access to over $300 million of R&D infrastructure.
Bleximo
Bleximo, a Berkeley, California-based startup founded in 2017 that specializes in ‘quantum accelerators,’ was cofounded by Alexei Marchenkov and Richard Mayra. These accelerators, meant for particular industry challenges, ‘enable the rules of quantum physics.’
Ultimately, Marchenkov and Maydra hope their accelerators can imitate the structure and qualities of molecules and chemical processes, which may help the pharmaceutical industry in drug discovery and design challenges.
Bleximo raised $1.5 million in seed funding in 2018, led by Eniac Ventures and four other investors. With this healthy cash injection and Marchenkov’s and Maydra’s decades of academic and industry experience, the startup is in a favorable position to make its mark in the QC space.
Bluefors
Bluefors (previously BlueFors Cryogenics) was created in 2007 as a spin-off from Aalto University’s Low-Temperature Laboratory (LTL) and produced and manufactured “cryogen-free, ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator systems.”
Pieter Vorselman and Rob Blaauwgeer, the co-founders of this quantum computing hardware firm, want to employ their technology in cutting-edge applications such as nano-technology and QC. With forty years of experience between them in ‘ultra-low temperature physics and engineering,’ the Helsinki-based pair is committed to serving an expanding client base, along with their extensive team of cryogenic and R&D engineers, micromechanics, HR specialists, and dedicated salespeople.
Bluefors is already a “leading provider of cryogen-free dilution refrigerator systems,” with more than 350 systems installed globally. Vorderman and Blaauwgeer appear to have a good thing going, even though they already have a revenue stream but no information on VC funding.
ColdQuanta
Boulder, Colorado, is home to ColdQuanta, a market leader in commercializing quantum atomics. Its Quantum Core™ technology is used to construct “components, instruments, and turnkey systems that cover a broad range of applications, from timekeeping and navigation to quantum computing and quantum communications systems,” according to the company’s website.
Rainer Kunz founded this quantum computing hardware firm and served as its CEO until 2015. ColdQuanta can boast happy clients from all branches of the United States because of its global customer base. The Department of Defense, DOE national laboratories, NASA, NIST, and major universities are all involved.
ColdQuanta has operational offices in Wisconsin and Oxford, UK, and is unsatisfied with being in one place. ColdQuanta appears to be on its way to providing governmental organizations and institutions with its cutting-edge Quantum Core™ technology, which utilizes ‘ultra-cold atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero using lasers to manipulate and regulate the atoms with extreme accuracy,’ according to two Seed financing rounds and a grant in recent years.
