en.Wedoany.com Reported - Delft, Netherlands, May 5, 2026 (local time) — Superconducting quantum processor company QuantWare officially announced the completion of a $178 million Series B equity funding round. New investors in this round include Intel's venture capital arm Intel Capital, U.S.-based In-Q-Tel (IQT), and ETF Partners, with existing shareholders FORWARD.one, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, InnovationQuarter Capital, Ground State Ventures, and Graduate Ventures continuing their participation. According to the company's announcement, this funding round represents the largest single private financing in the quantum processor sector to date.
Matt Rijlaarsdam, CEO and co-founder of QuantWare, stated in the announcement: "Quantum computing holds the promise of solving humanity's most intractable challenges, but only if it can be manufactured and deployed at an industrial scale. That is exactly what we are building."
This capital will be directly invested in building next-generation, ultra-large-scale quantum processors and their manufacturing facilities. The core technology carrier is the VIO-40K architecture — first unveiled by QuantWare in December 2025, it supports the integration of 10,000 superconducting qubits in a single system, a scale 100 times greater than the current commercial state-of-the-art, with delivery to initial customers expected in 2028. VIO-40K achieves this scale leap through chiplet-based modular design and ultra-high-fidelity inter-chip interconnects, supporting 40,000 input/output lines. Compared to the traditional path of networking numerous small processors, it delivers an exponential increase in computational output per dollar and per watt of power. The architecture is also compatible with NVIDIA's NVQLink open platform, integrating quantum computing with classical AI supercomputing via low-latency, high-throughput connections, and providing a unified CUDA-Q developer programming interface.
VIO-40K is the flagship product of QuantWare's proprietary VIO technology. VIO is a modular quantum processor architecture designed as an open platform, capable of scaling the integration of third-party qubit chiplets and design solutions, unleashing maximum computational power quantum processing units for the entire industry. QuantWare serves the global quantum supply chain through its self-developed quantum processors, foundry services, and chiplet packaging. It is currently the only company designing, manufacturing, and integrating modular quantum processors at an industrial scale. As of this funding round, the company has delivered products to over 50 customers across 20 countries, making it the world's largest commercial quantum processor supplier by shipment volume, with a customer base spanning quantum computing companies, national technology research institutes, and international technology conglomerates.
On the manufacturing front, QuantWare is building KiloFab at its headquarters in Delft — described by the company as the world's largest dedicated quantum open-architecture wafer fab. Once operational, this facility will increase the company's production capacity by 20 times, transitioning from reliance on shared university cleanrooms or general-purpose foundries to industrial-scale manufacturing of quantum processors. Kike Miralles, representing Intel Capital, noted in the funding announcement that in superconducting quantum computing, scaling bottlenecks are increasingly concentrated in routing, packaging, and manufacturability, rather than solely in qubit design itself, and that QuantWare identified this early and addressed it through the VIO architecture.
Europe is accelerating its pursuit of the U.S. and China in the strategic technology sector of quantum computing. French quantum computing company Pasqal recently announced plans to build its U.S. headquarters and a quantum and microelectronics industrial park in Chicago, while U.S.-based IonQ is advancing over $50 million in state-level investment for its new headquarters in Maryland. The industrial manufacturing transformation represented by QuantWare's current funding round — namely, building a quantum-dedicated wafer fab and establishing an open architecture pathway — marks the most capital-intensive step yet in moving quantum computing from laboratory-level development to industrial-scale mass production infrastructure.
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