IQM, a Finnish startup founded in 2018, has reached a significant milestone by producing its 30th full-stack quantum computer at its facility near Helsinki, Finland. The facility also houses Europe’s only private quantum chip factory and has a production capacity of up to 20 full-stack quantum computers per year.
The company aims to reduce the cost of on-premise quantum computing by industrializing manufacturing capabilities. Co-CEO Mikko Välimäki notes that one of the key bottlenecks in quantum computer adoption is prohibitively high prices, which IQM hopes to address with its scalable production.
In a few years, IQM’s output will be augmented by its first industrial production unit outside Finland, located in Grenoble, France, set to come online in 2027. The company has yet to confirm the exact planned production capacity.
IQM produces superconducting quantum computers using superconducting circuits and cryogenics systems to create and manipulate qubits on quantum chips. These machines can only function at temperatures near absolute zero.
So far, IQM has delivered six full-stack on-premise quantum computers to customers worldwide. Amazon Braket, a quantum cloud service, recently selected IQM’s 20-qubit Garnet processor for its Europe (Stockholm) region.
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