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Diraq- Delivering Revolutionary Quantum Computing Technology to the World

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Delivering revolutionary quantum computing technology to the world
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Challenge
Problem sets such as faster drug discovery, new material discovery for renewable energy and storage, and portfolio optimisation in finance, require processing power beyond that of current highperformance computers.
Solution
Diraq’ s goal is to deliver full-scale, fault-tolerant, quantum computing by driving qubit numbers on a single chip to the millions, and ultimately billions, needed for useful commercial applications. It’ s the world leader in building quantum processors using silicon‘ quantum dot’ technology.
Diraq’ s quantum computing technology laser-focussed on economic viability when achieving fault tolerance due to low manufacturing costs, small space requirements, and relatively low energy consumption compared to other quantum computing modalities.
Target customers / end-users
Large companies, government or research-driven organisations in industries like defence, finance, pharmaceuticals, logistics, etc., with a long-term focus on competitive advantage through quantum computing.
Progress
• awarded DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Phase A
• established foundry partnerships critical for production scale( GlobalFoundries, imec)
• numerous R & D partnerships, incl. NVIDIA, Synopsys, HRL Laboratories, UNSW
Industry advisory board
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Intelligent Systems, Quantum & Space
Diraq is building the world’ s first commercially viable quantum computers using patented SiMOS quantum dot qubits. Natively manufactured in semiconductor foundries, Diraq’ s quantum computing approach combines highperformant qubits, small total footprints, & low manufacturing ramp-up costs to build faulttolerant quantum computers capable of solving commercially valuable problems.