Atom Computing Officially Opens a New R&D Center in Boulder, Colorado

From left, Andrew Wilson, quantum physics division chief at NIST; Missy Diehl, director of industry relations at the University of Colorado Boulder; Rob Hays, CEO and president of Atom Computing; Colorado Governor Jared Polis; Ben Bloom, co-founder and chief technology officer at Atom; and Jonathan King, co-founder and chief scientist at Atom, cut the ribbon on Atom’s new facility in Boulder, Colorado. Credit: Atom Computing

With the help of Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Atom Computing officially opened its new R&D center in Boulder, Colorado. Although the company has a facility in Berkeley, California, it decided to add to its development capabilities with an additional facility in Colorado so they could tap into the talent and resources at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) as well as JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a joint institute of the university and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The new facility will have room to contain multiple quantum processors and the company expects to invest over $100 million in the Colorado operation over the next three years. They currently have a prototype 100 qubit quantum processor codenamed Phoenix and are now working on the development of a second generation system. Additional information about this new facility is available in a news release provided by Atom Computing that can be accessed here.

September 29, 2022