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TURINGO Nets Hundreds of Millions in Series A
TURINGO, a leading company in the industrialization of optical quantum chips and optical quantum computing in China, announced that it has raised hundreds of millions in Series A funding.
The leading quantum computing company TURINGO (Chinese: 图灵量子) has jointly built the first quantum artificial intelligence computing center in China in early 2023.
TURINGO, a leading company in the industrialization of optical quantum chips and optical quantum computing in China, announced that it has raised hundreds of millions in Series A funding. The investment was led by the "national team" EIIF (Chinese: 中国互联网投资基金), followed by Tsinghua Holdings Capital (Chinese: 华控基金), Shanghai Orient Securities Innovation Investment(Chinese: 东证创新)，Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group（Chinese：联想创投）. Proceeds from this round of funding will primarily be used to build capacity for mass production of chips, develop technology for full-stack products, and promote industrialization for industrial applications.
The leading quantum computing company TURINGO (Chinese: 图灵量子) has jointly built the first quantum artificial intelligence computing center in China in early 2023.
TURINGO, a leading company in the industrialization of optical quantum chips and optical quantum computing in China, announced that it has raised hundreds of millions in Series A funding. The investment was led by the "national team" EIIF (Chinese: 中国互联网投资基金), followed by Tsinghua Holdings Capital (Chinese: 华控基金), Shanghai Orient Securities Innovation Investment(Chinese: 东证创新)，Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group（Chinese：联想创投）. Proceeds from this round of funding will primarily be used to build capacity for mass production of chips, develop technology for full-stack products, and promote industrialization for industrial applications.
Bro to add on your post, it can be made using domestic tools similar to silicon chip manufacturing.
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check it out, very nice quantum chip manufacturing flow. Alot of tools used for manufacturing are domestic tools. Alot similarities in steps to silicon chip manufacturing.
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A new quantum computer will soon be built. China's 1st quantum chips production line is running at full capacity.
hmm, it's been running for a while already
here is a good interview on it recently. They just happened to display it on TV for the first time yesterday.
Wukong chip will have more than 64 qubits, wide usage and such.
A lot of application need to be developed this year.
China's latest quantum computer 'Wukong' to debut, production line in full capacity
Quantum computer prototypes at China's first quantum chip production line. /CMG
China's first quantum chip production line made its debut via a live streaming program by China Media Group (CMG) on Tuesday, where Wukong, the country's latest quantum computer is to come out.
Quantum chips dedicated for Wukong had been developed at the production line by the end of last year, and are now debugging in the new quantum computer, said Jia Zhilong, deputy director of Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, which is jointly established by Hefei Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Origin Quantum), a startup headquartered in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province and Key Laboratory of Quantum Information of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Part of China's latest quantum computer Wukong. /CMG
The country's latest quantum computer Wukong will feature a chip with over 64 qubits, Zhang Hui, manager of Origin Quantum, told guancha.cn in an interview, comparing to IBM's Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits and Google's quantum chip Bristlecone with 72 qubits.
Zhang said the company lags behind the world's leading quantum computing players like IBM and Google in terms of hardware products and development, but has some advantages in the software and operating systems, and views the former as the way forward.
Sharp 'eye' and 'scalpel'
More cutting-edge tools have been developed to facilitate the production of quantum computers at the production line.
NDPT-100, China's first non-destructive probe electrical measurement platform, was developed by Origin Quantum in December, 2022.
Fast and accurate, the platform serves as a sharp eye to measure quantum bit resistance and can identify the quality of quantum chips with almost zero damage, greatly improving development efficiency.
MLLAS-100, China's first laser annealer. /CMG
The company built the country's first laser annealer in the following month. Dubbed "MLLAS-100," the laser annealer targets solving instability when the number of quantum bits increases.
It can achieve an ultra-high positioning accuracy of 100 nanometers and perform local laser annealing in a single quantum bit, enabling the quantum chip to expand to multiple bits.
Acting like a scalpel in surgery, it can accurately remove defects in quantum chips and improve production quality.
In the production process of quantum chips, the NDPT-100 platform is used to detect defective parts which will then be processed by the laser annealer, introduced by Jia. "With the pair cooperating with each other, quantum chips with higher quality are produced."
Based on an internal evaluation, "the yield of chips has been improved by about 10 times by utilizing these two machines," Jia told CMG.
Since its operation in January 2022, the production line has introduced 24 sets of quantum chip production equipment, incubated three sets of special equipment for quantum chips, and delivered multiple batches of quantum chips and quantum amplifiers, said Jia.
Quantum breakthrough: Chinese scientists realize faster way of quantum key distribution
A demonstration of quantum entanglement, a key mechanic behind quantum communication. /CFP
Chinese scientists have successfully implemented a new way of quantum key distribution (QKD) which can boost the speed of intercity quantum networks.
Quantum network is known for its strong resistance against eavesdropping – theoretically, it's completely hacker-free. Data transferred through this kind of network is encrypted, with the decryption key transferred through quantum mechanics.
Current QKD methods have limited distances and can be challenging to implement, but the new method demonstrated hope to solve these problems.
The new method, named mode-pairing QKD (MP-QKD), was first proposed in 2022 by a research team led by Dr. Ma Xiongmeng at Tsinghua University. It does not require a technically challenging step called "phase locking" to be implemented.
The team cooperated with another team led by Professor Pan Jianwei, a pioneer in quantum communication in China, to put the new method into practice, and the performance was outstanding.
Details of the test were published in the U.S. scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
In the paper, the researchers said MP-QKD can achieve a "quadratic improvement" in key-rate – basically the speed of QKD – over traditional measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD) when used in metropolitan and intercity networks.
The new method also performs faster on longer distances like 300 to 400 kilometers, with a speed boost by three orders of magnitude, the paper said.
The paper added that MP-QKD can be achieved with "off-the-shelf lasers," thus is a "ready-to-implement" technology.
The scientists expect the new technology to be "widely used" in future intercity quantum networks.
Another article on Origin Quantum and its progress so far. Not much new material here, but important to point out that its chief scientist thinks that the role of quantum computing will significantly get raised over the next 3 to 5 years. I think that's when they expect quantum computer to be used more and more in various industries.