By Dan O'Shea objavljeno 17. oktober 2022
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) is currently in negotiations with federal, state, and local government parties as it works to line up about $30 million in funding and incentives that will help it build a new state-of-the-art quantum nanophotonics technology manufacturing and research center.
QCI is seeking funding from the $52 billion Zakon o CHIPS in znanosti iz leta 2022. About $39 billion of that is for manufacturing incentives and $13 billion for research investives.
"Sprejetje zakona CHIPS je zgodovinska priložnost za preoblikovanje polprevodniške industrije v ZDA," je izjavil izvršni direktor QCI Robert Liscouski. »V tem prizadevanju lahko igramo pomembno vlogo z uporabo našega inženirskega strokovnega znanja in kvantne tehnologije za razvoj naslednje generacije kvantne računalniške tehnologije, vključno z nanofotoničnimi čipi. Čeprav ni absolutne gotovosti za uspeh pri pridobivanju sredstev, smo močno povezani s številnimi državami, ki so prevzele to pobudo, da bi vzpostavile vodilno vlogo v proizvodnji te kritične tehnologije. Zavedajo se, da je naša tehnologija ključnega pomena za našo tehnološko bazo, pa tudi za razvoj dobro izobražene in usposobljene delovne sile, ki bo ZDA omogočila, da ostanejo vodilne na področju tehnoloških inovacij.«
Asked for more details about the location of the new facility, the agencies QCI is negotiating with, and how much money QCI will invest from its own coffers, Liscouski did not mention specific names and dollar figures.
“We are not naming states with whom we are in negotiations for obvious reasons,” he said. “However, we are working with state partners to develop a proposal that will consist of investment from QCI, the states in the form of real estate, financial incentives and/or tax incentives as well as investment from the federal government.”
That facility will help QCI expand its current optical chip development capabilities, “to scale to meet its own as well as other commercial needs,” Liscouski said. The company for now uses a contract lab in New York City to build its photonic quantum chips
QCI is proceeding on a strategy to migrate the technology behind its photonic Entropy Quantum Computer (EQC) system from a discrete component architecture to a highly integrated system on a chip design.
Dan O'Shea že več kot 25 let pokriva telekomunikacije in sorodne teme, vključno s polprevodniki, senzorji, maloprodajnimi sistemi, digitalnimi plačili in kvantnim računalništvom/tehnologijo.
