India's QpiAI Activates 8-Inch Quantum Foundry, Targeting 10,000 Qubits by 2027

en.Wedoany.com Reported - QpiAI, an Indian full-stack quantum and artificial intelligence startup, has activated an 8-inch quantum processing unit (QPU) manufacturing facility in Jakkur, Bengaluru. Officially designated as Phase 2 of its 70,000-square-foot R&D center, this quantum foundry is capable of fabricating flip-chip superconducting quantum processors containing up to 128 physical qubits. The company plans to complete Phase 3 expansion by 2027, when the cleanroom infrastructure will support the fabrication of individual QPUs containing up to 10,000 physical qubits.

The facility carries out the complete device fabrication process on-site, encompassing electron beam lithography, wet/dry etching, patterning, Josephson junction preparation, 3D flip-chip assembly, and cryogenic packaging. Operating under Class 100 and Class 1,000 cleanroom specifications, the foundry also manufactures peripheral control chips and sensors in addition to superconducting QPUs, and supports R&D on photonic and semiconductor spin qubits.

QpiAI has already fabricated four major quantum processors on-site. QVidya is an 8-qubit superconducting transmon processor; Indus is a 25-qubit transmon QPU integrated into a hybrid classical HPC data center; Kaveri is a 64-qubit superconducting transmon chip employing proprietary low-loss flip-chip interconnects; and Yukti is a 9-qubit processor based on fluxonium qubit variants, used to evaluate fault-tolerant surface codes and logical qubit encoding. The company's next production milestone is the delivery of the 128-qubit Ganges processor.

QpiAI has invested $20 million to $25 million in the facility to date, and plans to allocate an additional $10 million to $15 million for Phase 3 equipment and testing capability expansion. The foundry serves as the hardware backbone of QpiAI's planned Quantum Supremacy Centers (QSCs). These centers are hybrid data centers connecting fault-tolerant QPUs with AI clusters, targeting commercial advantages in drug simulation, logistics, and materials science. The main QSC will be located on a 10-acre campus in India with 300,000 square feet of built-up area, with 4 additional international QSC sites in the planning stage.

Supported by a $32 million Series A funding round co-led by Avataar Ventures and India's National Quantum Mission (NQM), QpiAI has been selected for the NQM domestic hardware program, making it one of 8 startups receiving direct equity and grant support.