SkyWater and D-Wave Sign Multi-Year Quantum Manufacturing Agreement

Insider Brief

• SkyWater Technology and D-Wave Quantum have signed a multi-year agreement to continue specialized semiconductor process development and manufacturing for D-Wave’s superconducting quantum systems.
• The agreement extends a collaboration spanning more than a decade, including manufacturing D-Wave’s Advantage2 processors at SkyWater’s Minnesota facility.
• In a separate project, D-Wave’s quantum annealing technology helped optimize maintenance scheduling at SkyWater’s fab, reducing lot delays by up to 30%.

PRESS RELEASE — SkyWater Technology (“SkyWater”), the first quantum foundry in the U.S., and D-Wave Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced a multi-year agreement. This collaboration extends the long-established partnership between both companies, to continue specialized semiconductor process development and manufacturing in support of D-Wave’s quantum technology roadmap.

D-Wave‘s work with the process integration and manufacturing team at SkyWater’s Minnesota fab spans more than a decade, creating a deep base of process knowledge around its superconducting quantum technologies. The two companies are working together and bring different strengths. D-Wave knows how to engineer superconducting processes and how to design quantum systems and processors. SkyWater is skilled at combining manufacturing steps into one process, engineering materials, making very thin layers of material, and manufacturing semiconductors.