Quix Sells Its 12 Mode Photonic Processor to Quandela

Quix Photonic Processor

Quix Control Box

Quix has announced the sales of another of its 12 mode photonic processors, including the control box and all the peripherals, to French company Quandela. This follows a previous sale they announced last month to Qontrol. Quandela views this processor as a key component to a full quantum computer they are planning to build in 2022. The Quix device uses light photons which travel through silicon nitride waveguides and use quantum interference to perform computations. A big benefit of photonic processors is that they can run at room temperatures and do not require special cooling. The photonic quantum information processing does not provide universal quantum computing capabilities that might be seen in gate based machines but it still can be useful in certain important applications including quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry. For more on this sale, you can view a press release available on the Quix website here.

May 21, 2021