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A significant new Business Finland funding accelerates the progress of Finnish quantum technology. A shared infrastructure environment is being built at the University of Jyväskylä's Nanoscience Center for researching and developing quantum technology platforms. The infrastructure will be open to both public and private research, and users will include university researchers as well as start-up companies. This is the only infrastructure in Finland that is openly available and focuses specifically on semiconductor-based quantum technologies. Shared infrastructures are still rarities internationally.

The European Innovation Council has approved a €2.5 million grant funding to SemiQon, a leading developer of silicon-based quantum processors and Qblox, a leading provider of scalable and modular qubit control stacks. The goal of the project is to build high quality silicon-based spin-qubits and the tools to control and operate them sustainably, using a scalable quantum computing control stack. The project will be coordinated by SemiQon.

On Monday May 8th, SemiQon’s in-person launch event at Dipoli in Espoo brought together industry leaders, policy makers, scientists, and more to celebrate the beginning of SemiQon’s journey and to discuss the future joint opportunities of the quantum and semiconductor industries.

Within just two months of becoming operational, SemiQon has reached its first milestone as its first prototype design has now moved from drawing board to fabrication. The first fab-out is expected already this summer.

SemiQon co-founder and CEO Himadri Majumdar was featured as a guest in a recent episode of the Entangled Things podcast.

Voima Ventures backs the development of an alternative to conventional quantum computer chips, making future computers more affordable, scalable, and sustainable. With this milestone, SemiQon advances towards making quantum computers more capable of solving some of the world’s greatest challenges.