QoLab, Applied Materials team for qubit production
QoLab in the US has teamed up with Applied Materials to accelerate the development and scalable manufacturing of superconducting qubits with custom tools.
The deal includes an investment from Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, over the $16m Series A round announced in December 2024.
Qolab in Madison, Wisconsin, uses the latest 300mm semiconductor processes, which produce better interfaces resulting in higher quality qubits. These use new on-chip scaling techniques to significantly lower the cost of scaling up qubits with fast gates with speeds of 30 to 40ns. Proprietary transmon qubit designs are tailored for specific processes with long coherence times of over 100 µs with consistency of qubits across the wafer.
The company also works with UK quantum error correction algorithm developer Riverlane.
“Applied Ventures is excited to invest in and support Qolab in their mission to build scalable, high-coherence quantum processors,” said Rajesh Ramanujam, Investment Director at Applied Ventures. “Our investment aligns with our strategy of backing innovative companies that can leverage our expertise in materials engineering.”
Qolab and Applied Materials have collaborated to develop a detailed technical roadmap paper titled “How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits”
“Applied Materials’ collaboration with Qolab aims to develop processes for creating superconducting qubits with much lower error rates and better uniformity. This is a critical step toward accelerating the development of large-scale quantum computing,” said Dr. Robert Visser, Vice President in the Office of the CTO at Applied Materials, and one of the authors of the technical roadmap paper.
“Our collaboration with Applied Materials and other leading semiconductor partners, as outlined in our published roadmap, reflects a collective semiconductor industry effort to bring quantum computing to scale,” said Alan Ho, CEO of Qolab.
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