Waterloo, Canada, June 12 2025 -- Nord Quantique, a leader in computing hardware and quantum error correction, is joining Open Quantum Design (OQD) to support the advancement of quantum innovation and technologies.

A startup out of the University of Sherbrooke’s renowned Institut Quantique in Quebec, Nord Quantique is developing a fault tolerant quantum computer using fewer qubits with a focus on efficiency for improved control and scale. OQD is a non-profit committed to democratizing access to quantum computing. Their open-source approach to building the world’s first open-source, full-stack, trapped-ion quantum computer provides the ideal environment for quantum innovation.

Together, Nord Quantique and OQD will collaborate in the open-source sandbox to develop shared tools for the calibration of diverse quantum computing architectures, to design high level calibration software workflows, and to develop tools for tracking experimental parameter sweeps, fabrication runs, and full-system calibrations. The collaboration brings together highly skilled quantum experts in an open-source arena to accelerate the advancement of quantum technologies.

"We are thrilled to partner with Nord Quantique,” said Greg Dick, OQD’s co-founder and CEO. “As leaders in superconducting quantum hardware, the addition of Nord Quantique to the open-source community marks a major step forward in OQD’s efforts to drive innovation. We now partner to advance photonic, superconducting, and trapped ion architectures."

Nord Quantique is one of three Canadian companies selected in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. Launched in 2024, the initiative aims to assess whether quantum computing technologies can achieve utility-scale performance where computational benefits outweigh the costs.