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February 7, 2024 - SemiQon from Finland, and Canada’s CMC Microsystems announce a collaboration agreement to advance silicon-based quantum processor technology. Under the terms of the agreement, SemiQon will supply CMC with prototypes of its semiconductor-based quantum processor chips for research purposes. CMC scientists will collaborate with SemiQon to accelerate the development of processors for more powerful quantum computers suitable for the next generation of quantum computing – the million-qubit era.

SemiQon’s mission to make quantum computers more scalable, sustainable and cost effective made an impact on the jury, and SemiQon took third place in the global innovation competition.

A significant new Business Finland funding accelerates the progress of Finnish quantum technology. A shared infrastructure environment is being built at the University of Jyväskylä's Nanoscience Center for researching and developing quantum technology platforms. The infrastructure will be open to both public and private research, and users will include university researchers as well as start-up companies. This is the only infrastructure in Finland that is openly available and focuses specifically on semiconductor-based quantum technologies. Shared infrastructures are still rarities internationally.

The European Innovation Council has approved a €2.5 million grant funding to SemiQon, a leading developer of silicon-based quantum processors and Qblox, a leading provider of scalable and modular qubit control stacks. The goal of the project is to build high quality silicon-based spin-qubits and the tools to control and operate them sustainably, using a scalable quantum computing control stack. The project will be coordinated by SemiQon.

On Monday May 8th, SemiQon’s in-person launch event at Dipoli in Espoo brought together industry leaders, policy makers, scientists, and more to celebrate the beginning of SemiQon’s journey and to discuss the future joint opportunities of the quantum and semiconductor industries.

Technological sovereignty, digital resilience, and investment into next generation industry are undoubtedly high priorities for Europe in the coming years and decades. Geopolitical and geoeconomic competition, war in Europe, energy crisis and chip shortage have all emphasized on the one hand, the value, and on the other, the vulnerability, of our societies, industries, and critical infrastructure – and not the least their digital dimensions. Now is the time for European decision-makers to take leadership in the development of quantum technologies, and to rally around companies that are committed to building the solutions that Europe and the world will need tomorrow.