Quantum chip testing equipment supplier Orange Quantum Systems announced yesterday the opening of a new factory named Production 2 in Delft. The company said it is a new facility for assembling and producing OrangeQS Racks. Racks are control hardware designed by the company for quantum researchers in academia and industry. They are part of the company's full-stack OrangeQS research and development system and are now available as a separate product for customers.

Quantum chip testing equipment supplier Orange Quantum Systems recently announced that InnovationQuarter, the economic development agency of the Netherlands, has become an investor. InnovationQuarter has more than € 300 million in funds under management and primarily invests in disruptive startups & scale-ups.

Researchers at QuTech have found a way to make Majorana particles in a two-dimensional plane. This was achieved by creating devices that exploit the combined material properties of superconductors and semiconductors. The inherent flexibility of this new 2D platform should allow one to perform experiments with Majoranas that were previously inaccessible. The results are published in Nature.

MicroAlign, a spin-off from the Eindhoven University of Technology, announced today that it has closed €1 million in seed-funding to accelerate the commercialization of high-accuracy fiber arrays. The funding round was led by the Dutch venture capital firms DeepTechXL and PhotonVentures. MicroAlign’s fiber array product is a key enabling technology for quantum photonic computing applications, Exponential benefits in quantum computing efficiency can be indeed achieved with a high-accuracy fiber array component. 

Recently, a research consortium from TU Delft and Leiden University received an NWO Summit Grant of 35 million euros. This research project aims to investigate the fundamental limits on physical processes imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics, by exploring the behavior of quantum systems at the nanoscale.