Tag: semiconductor manufacturing
Cornell Cuts Tantalum Qubit Fabrication Temperature in Half
Tantalum is an excellent material for qubits. This metal resists corrosion, retains quantum information longer than most alternatives, and is...
Silicon Qubits Fail Because Their Atoms Sit Randomly
Researchers have traced the device-to-device swings in silicon spin-qubit valley splitting to random atomic-scale disorder inside the quantum well that...
GlobalFoundries Nears $300M CHIPS Award for Silicon Photonics
GlobalFoundries has signed a letter of intent for a potential $300 million CHIPS R&D award to expand U.S. silicon photonics,...
IonQ Clears Final Approval to Buy Chipmaker SkyWater
IonQ has cleared its last regulatory hurdle to acquire SkyWater Technology, a U.S. semiconductor foundry, and plans to close the...
Hitachi, Intel, and AIST Launch Silicon Quantum Manufacturing Project
Hitachi, Intel’s Japan arm, and the national research institute AIST have started a government-backed project to make silicon quantum computers...
Imec and Diraq Build an Eight-Qubit Silicon Array on a Standard Chip Line
Nanoelectronics R&D hub Imec and quantum computing company Diraq have run an eight-qubit silicon spin array made on a standard...
QuantumDiamonds Raises $104 Million to Scale Quantum Chip Inspection
QuantumDiamonds has raised €91 million ($104 million) to expand production of its diamond-based chip inspection systems. The round pairs a...