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Great to see our portfolio company Q*Bird playing an active role in Photonics for Quantum (P4Q), a €50 million European project to industrialise photonic chip technologies that will power the next generation of quantum systems.  Coordinated by the University of Twente, P4Q brings together a broad consortium spanning 12 European countries, bringing together 29 leading partners from across research institutes, semiconductor foundries, deep-tech companies and system integrators across Europe. Quantum photonic chips sit at the heart of many of Europe’s most strategic emerging technologies, including quantum secure communications, quantum sensing and quantum computing. As part of P4Q, Q*Bird will be working on the designs and perform system-level testing for photonic integrated circuits tailored to quantum secure communication. This includes evaluation of entanglement quality and quantum teleportation capability. At Ground State Ventures, we’ve supported Q*Bird and co-founders Ingrid, Joshua, and Remon from the start on their mission to build secure, scalable and future-ready quantum communication systems for Europe and beyond. 

The Swedish Chips Competence Centre (SCCC) is hosting a #webinar about the NanoIC pilot line on 22 May at 13:00h (UTC +2).   𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗜𝗖 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁: 💬 Giuseppe Fiorentino will give an overview of what the pilot line has to offer 💬 Syed Muhammad Yasser Sherazi, Marie Garcia Bardon, and Nicolas Pantano will dive into the innovations the NanoIC pilot line is driving in advanced logic, novel embedded memories, and advanced interconnect 💬 Nina Bazzazian will explain how to gain access to the pilot line 💬 Ruxandra Florea, PhD (she/her) will highlight the opportunities for training your skills for the semiconductor industry   Register here for the webinar to learn more about the NanoIC pilot line! 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5AfAwT4

indie.inc Semiconductor Unveils Game-Changing Quantum Laser Quantum computing just took another big step forward ⚛ indie Semiconductor has introduced its first 399nm ultraviolet DFB laser source, designed specifically for quantum systems using cooled ytterbium atoms. In this video, we break down: • What the 399nm UV DFB laser is • Why ytterbium atoms matter in quantum computing • How this breakthrough could accelerate quantum innovation • The future of photonics and quantum hardware Read the full article on Dataquest: https://lnkd.in/gZ-7fgxN #QuantumComputing #QuantumTech #LaserTechnology #UVLaser

The real work has begun! Since 1 May 2026, HLL has been working closely with European partners to establish the German superconducting pilot line within the #SUPREME consortium. From 11–13 May, HLL participated in the kick-off meeting of the SUPREME Research Consortium, a project funded by the European Union under the Chips Joint Undertaking. SUPREME comprises several pilot lines across Europe; the one hosted at HLL represents the German contribution to this joint effort. The overall goal is to advance superconducting quantum computing technologies toward industrialization and to build a strong European hub in this highly promising and strategic field. Over the coming years, HLL will contribute its extensive semiconductor processing expertise to help move the technology from individual prototypes toward higher scalability, reproducibility, and quality. The consortium is coordinated by VTT (Finland). Other German partners include Peak Quantum , WMI, Infineon Technologies , Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien.

The new €1.55B public investment announced in France is a strong signal for the quantum and semiconductor ecosystem. 🇫🇷 The next phase of quantum will not only be about building machines. It will be about scaling the industrial stack behind them. For us, this means moving from deployment to manufacturing capacity. After Lucy, integrated at CEA’s TGCC, we are opening a new chapter with our future semiconductor facility in Munich — a 1,000 m² site dedicated to production areas, cleanrooms and laboratories, with operations expected to begin in early 2027. This facility will support the pre-industrialization of reproducible photonic quantum emitters before their integration into full photonic QPUs. It also reinforces the work of our #FTQC teams: building the components, manufacturing processes, software stack and system architecture needed to move from today’s photonic quantum computers toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. From Lucy’s deployment to our new Munich facility, our roadmap is clear: deploy, validate, industrialize, and scale. 📰 Read the article (available in French only) proposed by Lucas Mediavilla from Le Figaro : https://lnkd.in/eJYzWpqY Emmanuel Macron Bruno Bonnell Anne Le Hénanff Sébastien Martin Julie Huguet Pascale Senellart Niccolo Somaschi Valerian Giesz Thomas Volz Darius Haitsch Jean Senellart Shane Mansfield Xavier Pereira Céline Marouani (Lucas) Nicolas Maring Simon Tessier Mario Valdivia Marie BILLARD, PhD EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) GENCI #QuantumComputing #Photonics #Semiconductors #Deeptech

Silicon photonics is scaling fast, but yield improvement still depends on one critical capability: seeing what happens inside the circuit. Our latest blog explores why conventional endpoint optical testing leaves too much hidden, and how in-circuit optical testing can help engineers pinpoint loss, defects, and performance issues directly inside photonic integrated circuits. Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/gWgz7-mF

D-Wave Quantum said its subsidiary Quantum Circuits received second-year funding for a U.S.-supported project focused on improving superconducting qubit materials and scalable fabrication methods. The SQFab (Improved Materials for Superconducting Qubits with Scalable Fabrication) project was one of four programs selected through NORDTECH, a New York-based consortium involving semiconductor R&D facilities, government labs, defense firms, universities, and manufacturing organizations. The four projects collectively secured more than $25M in second-year funding after meeting first-year milestones tied to the design, fabrication, and testing of quantum computing components. #QuantumComputing #DWave #Quantum #Superconductors #TechNews #Semiconductors #DefenseTech #Innovation #Qubits #ArtificialIntelligence

Episode 2 of our Quantum at Scale series is out. In this episode, I talk a bit about why control electronics are such a big part of the cost of quantum systems, and how we're solving it at SemiQon.   Every qubit needs its own control and readout chain, and at room temperature that runs around €15,000 per qubit. Multiply that by the qubit counts we'll need for useful computation, and the numbers get large fast.

𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 | 𝐄𝐩. 𝟐: 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐭 Every qubit in a quantum computer needs its own set of electronics to control and read out its state. That alone runs around €15,000 per qubit. At 100 qubits, that's €1.5 million just for the control layer. Quantum computing has made significant progress on the science side, but moving from lab systems to large-scale machines remains one of the field's biggest challenges. The bottleneck is increasingly engineering, and cost is a key part of that. At SemiQon, we are building cryo-optimized CMOS electronics that cut these costs to a fraction of today's price. 👉 In this episode, our CTO and co-founder Janne Lehtinen breaks down what's driving the numbers and how rethinking the electronics layer could reduce them significantly, opening the door for more organizations to build and operate quantum systems. #SemiQon #QuantumComputing #QuantumatScale

Really proud to see our work accepted at IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits 2026. Monolayer MoS₂ transistors get sharper, quieter, and more energy-efficient as they get colder, outperforming silicon in exactly the regime where future quantum hardware lives. That matters because ultra-low-power control electronics have to sit right next to the qubits inside the cryostat, where thermal noise is critical. This paper is one concrete step toward that future. Huge credit to Zhongyunshen Zhu and Aijia Yao for leading this, and to the rest of the MIT team for a wonderful collaboration. If you'll be at VLSI 2026, come catch Zhongyunshen's talk: T3.3 | 2D Channel Materials — Tuesday, June 16, 4:15 PM, Tapa 1. #VLSI2026 #QuantumComputing #2DMaterials #MoS2