en.Wedoany.com Reported - Quantum Motion has finalized an agreement to build an engineering facility within the Capital of Quantum (CoQ) deep tech complex in Discovery District, Maryland, USA. The UK-based silicon spin qubit developer joins a hardware cluster that already includes IQM's primary US quantum technology center and Microsoft's quantum research hub. This regional expansion aims to deploy its full-stack silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) architecture, alongside existing ion trap, photonic, topological, and superconducting modalities. The expansion supports dedicated testing infrastructure tailored for federal collaborations and high-throughput hardware characterization workflows.
Quantum Motion's hardware strategy is based on leveraging the same standard silicon transistor manufacturing techniques used in commercial consumer electronics to produce quantum processing units (QPUs). The company encodes quantum information in the electron spin states within confined silicon structures, utilizing existing semiconductor foundries to circumvent the complex challenges often posed by manufacturing yields in other qubit modalities. The College Park facility connects Quantum Motion's international R&D nodes in London, San Sebastian, and Sydney with the commercial and defense infrastructure of the Washington metropolitan corridor, including proximity to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland.
A core operational objective of the facility is integration into the Capital of Quantum Benchmarking Center, where Quantum Motion will support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). This national program aims to conduct rigorous, metrics-driven evaluations of commercial quantum hardware platforms, providing validation for scalable, fault-tolerant roadmaps applicable to public sector and defense workloads. Supported by the CoQ initiative—a five-year, $1 billion public-private partnership co-funded by the State of Maryland, the University of Maryland, and private industry stakeholders—the site will provide federal agencies with validated hardware testing parameters, optimizing code performance and verifying metrics before architecture scales to utility-scale data center integration. Official deployment announcements and regional technology transfer parameters are available via the Capital of Quantum newsroom.
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