Dutch startup QuantWare launches commercially available superconducting QPUs
27 July, 2021 – Dutch quantum hardware startup QuantWare has announced the launch of commercially available superconducting quantum processing units (QPUs), aiming to make superconducting qubit hardware accessible “off the shelf” and on short lead times. The company says easier access to superconducting processors – an approach used in some of the field’s most mature quantum computing platforms – could help smaller labs and startups accelerate R&D without building their own fabrication capability.
QuantWare’s initial offering includes its Soprano QPU, positioned for research and prototyping use cases, with options for customization and delivery as either a packaged unit or bare die. The company also disclosed a €1.15M pre-seed round to expand its team and scale its processors to higher qubit counts, and pointed to early ecosystem work such as supplying a QPU to the multi‑company ImpaQT quantum computer project. QuantWare says pre‑orders are now open.
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