Quantum Ecosystem
Quantum Computing Ecosystem. Quantum computing enabling technologies. Supply chain for quantum computing. What does it take to build a quantum computer.
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What It Takes to Build a Quantum Computer: Mapping the Hidden Supply Chains Behind Every Modality
A map of the hidden supply chains behind every major quantum computing modality — and a guide to where value, risk, and strategic leverage actually sit. The headlines go to the companies designing quantum processors, but behind every qubit sits…
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The Foundry’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Silicon Spin Quantum Computing Wins
In September 2025, a team from the Australian startup Diraq and Belgium's imec published a result in Nature that no one in the semiconductor industry could ignore. They had fabricated silicon quantum dot spin qubits on imec's industrial 300-millimeter wafer…
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The Infrastructure Beneath the Qubit: Four Enabling Technologies That Will Determine Which Quantum Computers Actually Scale
Quantum computing captivates with its physics: superposition, entanglement, interference. The companies that build qubits get the headlines, the funding rounds, and the breathless media coverage. But the companies that build the infrastructure beneath the qubits - the electronics that control…
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The Tweezer Array’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Wins
In 2025, a team at Harvard, MIT, and QuEra did something that no quantum computing platform had done before: they ran a 3,000-qubit atom array continuously for over two hours, replenishing lost atoms mid-computation - effectively building the first quantum…
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The Fab’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Photonic Quantum Computing Wins
In February 2025, a team of more than ninety researchers published a paper in Nature describing something the photonic quantum computing community had been waiting a decade to see: a complete quantum photonic technology stack - single-photon sources, superconducting detectors,…
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The Optical Table’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Wins
In September 2025, IonQ paid $1.075 billion for a company called Oxford Ionics that had built precisely one quantum computer. It wasn't the qubit count that justified the price tag. Oxford Ionics held fewer than two dozen qubits at the…
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The Chandelier’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Superconducting Quantum Computing Wins
In September 2025, Bluefors - the Finnish company whose cryogenic systems cool most of the world's superconducting quantum computers - signed a deal to buy up to ten thousand liters of helium-3 per year. The supplier? Interlune, a Seattle startup…
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