Quantum Industry Map

Written By David Wright

QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANIES BY TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER



I. SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT TECHNOLOGIES

Tier 1 Leaders (1000+ Qubits)

  • IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY) - Condor 1,121 qubits, Quantum System Two modular architecture

  • Google Quantum AI (Mountain View, CA) - Willow 105-qubit processor, quantum supremacy achievements

Advanced Systems (100-500 Qubits)

  • Rigetti Computing (Berkeley, CA) - Superconducting tunable transmon qubits, 9-qubit QPU Novera

  • Quantinuum (Broomfield, CO) - Trapped-ion QCCD architecture (merger of Honeywell + Cambridge Quantum)

  • D-Wave Systems (Burnaby, BC) - Quantum annealing, Advantage system 5,000+ qubits

Emerging Superconducting Players

  • Alice & Bob (Cambridge, MA & Paris, France) - Superconducting cat qubits

  • Atlantic Quantum (Cambridge, MA) - Fluxonium qubits with co-located cryogenic controls

  • Anyon Systems (Montreal, Canada) - On-premise superconducting quantum computers

  • Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) (Oxford, UK) - Coaxmon superconducting qubits, roadmap to 50,000 logical qubits by 2034

  • Quantum Circuits (New Haven, CT) - Yale spinout, superconducting circuit technology

  • Cambridge Quantum Computing (Cambridge, UK) - Now part of Quantinuum

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Houston, TX) - Superconducting qubits with advanced fabrication

II. TRAPPED ION TECHNOLOGIES

Commercial Leaders

  • IonQ (College Park, MD) - Public company, 160-qubit systems, cloud accessibility via AWS/Azure/GCP

  • Quantinuum (Broomfield, CO) - H-Series trapped-ion, quantum volume 1,048,576 (April 2024)

  • Honeywell Quantum Solutions - Now integrated into Quantinuum

Advanced Trapped Ion Developers

  • Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) (Innsbruck, Austria) - University of Innsbruck spinout, scalable trapped-ion processors

  • Oxford Ionics (Begbroke, UK) - Noiseless electronic qubit control technology

  • Universal Quantum (Brighton, UK) - Electric field-based ion manipulation, modular architecture

  • Quantum Factory (Munich, Germany) - Founded 2018, trapped-ion development

  • eleQtron (Siegen, Germany) - Trapped-ion quantum computing systems

III. NEUTRAL ATOM TECHNOLOGIES

Leading Neutral Atom Companies

  • Atom Computing (Boulder, CO) - Phoenix Platform, 1,000+ qubit systems, optically trapped neutral atoms

  • QuEra Computing (Boston, MA) - Neutral atom qubits, analog quantum simulation

  • Pasqal (Palaiseau, France) - Neutral atom quantum processors, 2030 fault-tolerant roadmap

  • ColdQuanta/Infleqtion (Boulder, CO) - Cold atom quantum systems, renamed to Infleqtion

IV. PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTING

Photonic Pioneers

  • PsiQuantum (Palo Alto, CA) - $1B+ funding, million-qubit silicon photonic systems, Australian government partnership

  • Xanadu (Toronto, Canada) - $1B+ valuation, Borealis 216-qubit photonic processor, room temperature operation

  • Orca Computing (London, UK) - Photonic quantum computing, enterprise applications

  • Quandela (Palaiseau, France) - MosaiQ photonic quantum platform, on-demand single photons

Specialized Photonic Companies

  • TundraSystems Global (Cardiff, Wales) - Photonic quantum computing development

  • Nu Quantum (Cambridge, UK) - Quantum networking and photonic systems

  • Lightmatter (Boston, MA) - Photonic AI computing (quantum-adjacent)

V. SILICON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

Silicon Spin Qubits

  • Intel (Hillsboro, OR) - Tunnel Falls 12-qubit silicon chip, silicon spin qubits

  • Diraq (Sydney, Australia) - Silicon CMOS spin qubits, operations in Palo Alto and Boston

  • Silicon Quantum Computing (SiQure) (Sydney, Australia) - Precision atom qubits in silicon

  • Quantum Motion (London, UK) - MOS-based silicon spin qubits

Silicon Photonics Integration

  • GlobalFoundries (Malta, NY) - Manufacturing partner for PsiQuantum silicon photonic chips

  • SiQure (Sydney, Australia) - Silicon-based quantum computing development

VI. EMERGING & ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Topological Qubits

  • Microsoft (Redmond, WA) - Majorana-based topological qubits, Azure Quantum cloud platform

  • Station Q (Santa Barbara, CA) - Microsoft's quantum research division

Quantum Dots & Novel Approaches

  • Nord Quantique (Sherbrooke, Canada) - Superconducting qubits with bosonic error correction

  • SemiQon (Espoo, Finland) - Silicon quantum dot technology

Quantum Annealing Specialists

  • D-Wave Systems (Burnaby, BC) - Quantum annealing technology, Advantage system

  • Quantum Computing Inc. (QUBT) (Leesburg, VA) - Quantum optimization solutions

VII. CLOUD & SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

Major Cloud Providers

  • Amazon Braket (Seattle, WA) - Multi-hardware quantum cloud platform

  • Microsoft Azure Quantum (Redmond, WA) - Cloud-based quantum development

  • Google Quantum Cloud (Mountain View, CA) - Quantum computing as a service

  • IBM Quantum Network (Armonk, NY) - Qiskit and quantum cloud services

Quantum Software Companies

  • Cambridge Quantum Computing - Now part of Quantinuum

  • 1QBit (Vancouver, Canada) - Quantum algorithm development

  • Menten AI (San Francisco, CA) - Quantum-enhanced drug discovery

  • ProteinQure (Toronto, Canada) - Quantum molecular simulation

  • Rahko (London, UK) - Quantum machine learning (acquired by Odyssey Therapeutics)

VIII. INTERNATIONAL & REGIONAL LEADERS

European Quantum Ecosystem

  • VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland) - Finnish national quantum development

  • IQM Quantum Computers (Espoo, Finland) - European quantum processor development

  • Atos Quantum (France) - Quantum simulation and consulting

  • Pasqal (France) - Neutral atom quantum processors

Asia-Pacific Players

  • Baidu Quantum (Beijing, China) - Qian Shi quantum platform, 36-qubit superconducting chip

  • Alibaba Quantum Laboratory (Hangzhou, China) - Cloud quantum development platform (recently shut down)

  • Toshiba (Tokyo, Japan) - Quantum cryptography and key distribution

  • Origin Quantum (Hefei, China) - Chinese quantum computing development

Australian Quantum Initiative

  • Silicon Quantum Computing (Sydney, Australia) - Precision atom qubits

  • Diraq (Sydney, Australia) - Silicon CMOS technology

  • University of New South Wales - Quantum research partnerships

IX. DEFENSE & GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS

DARPA QBI Selected Companies (Stage A)

Companies selected for $240M quantum benchmarking initiative:

  • Alice & Bob, Atlantic Quantum, Atom Computing, Diraq, HPE, IBM, IonQ, Nord Quantique, PsiQuantum, Quantinuum, Quantum Motion, QuEra Computing, Rigetti Computing, Silicon Quantum Computing, Xanadu

  • Plus 2 undisclosed companies still in negotiations

Defense-Focused Quantum

  • Quantum Computing Inc. (Leesburg, VA) - Government and defense applications

  • ColdQuanta/Infleqtion (Boulder, CO) - Defense sector quantum solutions

  • SandboxAQ (Palo Alto, CA) - Alphabet spinout, quantum security

X. QUANTUM SENSING & COMMUNICATION

Quantum Sensing Specialists

  • ID Quantique (Geneva, Switzerland) - Quantum key distribution and random number generation

  • MagniQ Technologies (Cambridge, MA) - Quantum communication systems

  • Quantum Xchange (Bethesda, MD) - Quantum key distribution networks

Quantum Communication Networks

  • Toshiba Quantum (Tokyo, Japan) - QKD systems and quantum networks

  • Quintessence Labs (Canberra, Australia) - Quantum cybersecurity solutions

STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Technology Maturity Assessment

  1. Most Mature: Superconducting qubits (IBM, Google leadership)

  2. Commercially Viable: Trapped ions (IonQ public, Quantinuum commercial)

  3. High Potential: Photonic systems (room temperature, networking advantages)

  4. Early Stage: Silicon qubits, topological qubits, neutral atoms

Investment Concentration

  • Mega-funding: PsiQuantum ($1B+), Xanadu ($1B+ valuation), IonQ (public)

  • Government Support: DARPA QBI $240M, Australian PsiQuantum investment $1B

  • Corporate Investment: Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amazon internal development

Geographic Distribution

  • North America: 35+ companies (60% of ecosystem)

  • Europe: 15+ companies (25% of ecosystem)

  • Asia-Pacific: 10+ companies (15% of ecosystem)

Competitive Dynamics

No single technology approach has established clear dominance. The quantum computing ecosystem demonstrates healthy diversity across:

  • Hardware approaches: 6 major qubit technologies

  • Application focus: Computing, sensing, communication

  • Market segments: Cloud services, on-premise systems, specialized applications

Key Success Factors

  1. Scale: Ability to demonstrate increasing qubit counts with maintained fidelity

  2. Error Correction: Progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

  3. Commercial Applications: Demonstration of quantum advantage in real-world problems

  4. Ecosystem: Software stack, cloud accessibility, developer community



David Wright https://www.fourester.com
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