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Redazione RHC : 10 December 2025 19:22
The world of quantum technology has made an impressive leap forward:
QuantWare has unveiled the world’s first 10,000-qubit processor, 100 times more than any existing device . Furthermore, the new chip takes up even less space than current systems, making this breakthrough particularly noteworthy amid years of stagnation in quantum processor scalability.
For nearly a decade, the industry has failed to surpass the 100-qubit threshold. Google managed to go from 53 to 105 qubits in just six years, while IBM introduced a 1,121-qubit processor in 2023 and doesn’t expect significant growth until at least 2028. Faced with hardware limitations, companies have been forced to combine multiple small chips rather than increase the power of a single one. This has complicated the architecture, increased costs, and hindered real progress.
QuantWare claims that its new architecture removes this barrier.
It relies on 3D scalability and a modular chiplet design, supporting 40,000 I/O lines and high-precision interchip interconnects. This approach enables the construction of large, monolithic quantum processing units (QPUs) without sacrificing reliability or performance.
The company claims the new system offers significantly more computing power per dollar and per watt than multi-chip solutions, and the architecture itself could become an industry-wide scalability standard . Any organization working with superconducting qubits could use it to create more powerful quantum devices.
QuantWare is simultaneously developing the Quantum Open Architecture ecosystem, which now includes NVIDIA NVQLink . Combined with QuantWare ‘s proprietary architecture, this technology combines hyperscalable quantum computing with high-performance classical computing, accessible via NVIDIA CUDA-Q . The company believes that the combination of VIO and NVQLink delivers the scalability the industry desperately needs today.
Along with the announcement, the company also announced plans to build a large-scale Kilofab facility . The facility, scheduled to open in Delft, Netherlands, in 2026, will become the world’s first dedicated quantum open architecture (AO) device factory and one of the largest quantum manufacturing facilities ever designed. QuantWare already ships more quantum processors than any other commercial manufacturer in terms of volume, and Kilofab will increase this capacity 20-fold.
Matt Rijlaarsdam , CEO of QuantWare, called this a long-overdue turning point.
He noted that for years, specialists had limited themselves to theorizing about the capabilities of quantum systems, as the field was limited to 100 qubits and could not achieve economically significant computing power . The new processor, he said, finally removes this barrier and paves the way for truly useful quantum computers. “With the VIO-40K, we are offering the entire ecosystem access to the most powerful and scalable quantum processor architecture ever built,” he emphasized.
Pre-orders are already open and the first units will be delivered to customers in 2028.
Recall that in 2019 Craig Gidney and Martin Ekerå estimated, in their work entitled “How to factor 2048-bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits” , that a quantum device with about 20 million “noisy” physical qubits — connected in a flat grid and corrected with surface code — would theoretically be able to factor a 2048-bit RSA key in about 8 hours .
However, in a 2025 update, Gidney himself proposes substantial optimizations: thanks to techniques such as approximate residual arithmetic and more efficient management of dormant logical qubits, according to the article “How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits,” a quantum computer with less than a million noisy physical qubits would today be sufficient to factor an RSA-2048 key, in a time “less than a week.”
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