Oxford Ionics is a UK-based quantum computing company. Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer. They have announced a collaboration to develop high-performance and fully integrated quantum processing units (QPUs). Oxford Ionics has over two years of experience in quantum technology.
Their electronic qubit control (EQC) technology, combined with Infineon’s engineering capabilities, will accelerate the production of QPUs. These QPUs will have hundreds of qubits. The objective is to transition quantum computing (QC) technology from research labs to practical industry applications. It is, therefore, necessary to create massively scalable qubit technologies that can control an increasing number of qubits and keep quantum error levels low.
Quantum computing offers new possibilities for many sectors. These sectors seek a fundamental increase in their procedures and capacities. However, the challenge is scaling while enhancing performance in quantum computing. Oxford Ionics’s electrical control is well equipped to do both tasks. The EQC technology from Oxford Ionics provides a way to incorporate trapped-ion qubits—the leading qubit technology by quantum error levels—into Infineon’s established semiconductor processes. Infineon’s task is to correctly scale Oxford Ionics’ innovative work toward significant qubit numbers and low error rates.
The companies aim to provide individual, fully integrated QPUs within five years. These QPUs will deliver hundreds of qubits. They will be networked together into a quantum supercomputing cluster through Oxford Ionics’s device.
