QpiAI Opens Quantum Chip Foundry in India, Targets 10,000-Qubit Processors

Insider Brief

• QpiAI opened a quantum processor manufacturing facility in Bengaluru capable of fabricating superconducting chips with up to 128 qubits, with plans to scale capacity to 10,000 physical qubits in 2027.
• The foundry will handle processes including lithography, etching, assembly and packaging while supporting research into superconducting, photonic and semiconductor qubits.
• QpiAI has invested about $20 million to $25 million in the facility and plans another $10 million to $15 million as it expands manufacturing and develops proposed quantum-AI computing centers.

Quantum computing startup QpiAI has opened a manufacturing facility in Bengaluru capable of fabricating superconducting quantum processors, part of an effort to bring more of its quantum hardware development and production under one roof.

The Bengaluru-based company on Monday inaugurated the second phase of its quantum processing unit, or QPU, manufacturing facility in Jakkur, according to YourStory. QpiAI said the eight-inch fabrication facility can currently produce flip-chip superconducting processors with as many as 128 qubits.

The company plans to complete a third phase in 2027 that it says will give the facility the capacity to fabricate processors containing as many as 10,000 physical qubits. That target would represent a significant increase in scale, although reaching a given qubit count alone does not establish the performance or commercial usefulness of a quantum computer.