
Recent QC Supplier Moves to Secure Critical Supply Chain Technology
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Authors: Bob Sorensen and Tom Sorensen
Publication Date: February 202024
Length: 1 pages
In the past month, two quantum computing (QC) suppliers have announced acquisitions of specialized technology firms that provide components critical to the development and production of their respective QC product offerings, in this case both centered on photonic-based systems. US-based Infleqtion, a provider of both quantum technologies and commercial quantum computer hardware and software, announced it had acquired two integrated silicon photonics companies, SiNoptiq Inc. and Morton Photonics Inc. UK-based ORCA, developer of full-stack photonic QC systems, announced the acquisition of the US-based Integrated Photonics Division of GXC.
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