News & Highlights
12 September 2024 – Best Student Paper Award at ESSCERC – During the 2024 European Solid-State Electronic Research Conference in Bruges, Belgium, International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), TU Delft researchers were awarded the Best Student Paper Award of the Joint ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Tracks for the paper “A Benchmark of Cryo-CMOS 40-nm Embedded SRAM/DRAMs for Quantum Computing” by Rob Damsteegt et al.
11 July 2023 – QuTech and Intel renew their collaboration – Having worked together on quantum research since 2015, with significant groundbreaking achievements as a result, Intel and QuTech have decided to continue their collaboration beyond 2025. They will next focus primarily on cryogenic complementary metal-oxide semiconductor electronics (cryo-CMOS) research, an emerging technology that could provide higher performance and lower power without changing the fabrication technology.
27 April 2022 – CICC Best Paper Award – During the 2022 Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC), researchers at QuTech and Intel were awarded the 2022 CICC Best Paper for the paper “Cryogenic CMOS for Qubit Control and Readout” by Stefano Pellerano et al.
29 March 2022 – Intel and QuTech deliver first industrially manufactured qubit – Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Intel have delivered the first qubit made in the very same industrial manufacturing facilities that mass-produce conventional computer chips. This advancement has been a long-standing goal due to its promise of scalability. The breakthrough is a crucial step towards scaling to the thousands of qubits that are needed for practical quantum computation.
12 March 2021 – Cold chips can control qubits – Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Intel jointly designed and tested a specially designed chip for controlling qubits, which is able to operate at extremely low temperatures. The cryogenic chip opens the door to solving the ‘wiring bottleneck’ and constitutes an important step towards a scalable quantum computer. Their results were published in the scientific journal Nature.
16 February 2021 – ISSCC Award best European Paper of 2020 – During the 2021 International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), researchers at QuTech and the Faculty of EEMCS of TU Delft, together with Intel, were awarded the ‘ISSCC 2020 Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper’.
19 February 2020 – Cryo-chip overcomes obstacle to large-scale quantum computers – QuTech and Intel have resolved a major issue on the road towards a working large-scale quantum computer. Together they have designed and fabricated an integrated circuit that can operate at extremely low temperatures when controlling qubits, the essential building blocks of a quantum computer. This paves the way for the crucial integration of qubits and their control electronics in the same chip.
10 October 2017 – Quantum Physics Meets Intel Engineering – Today Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech. The new chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield and performance. The delivery of this chip demonstrates the fast progress Intel and QuTech are making in researching and developing a working quantum computing system.
