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QuantWare Launches 10,000-Qubit Quantum Processor VIO-40K

Dutch quantum hardware pioneer QuantWare reported a massive scaling breakthrough with the VIO-40K quantum processor, which will transform quantum technology. This new device can produce 10,000 qubits, 100 times more than the largest quantum processing units (QPUs) on the market, according to reports. The company claims that this technology solves the largest challenge facing the quantum industry—the technological bottleneck in expanding quantum hardware—and ushers in economically feasible quantum processing.

For nearly ten years, a technological ceiling around 100 qubits has severely hampered quantum computing. This long-standing constraint has pushed researchers and corporations to use theoretical studies or arduous, expensive methods that require connecting several smaller computers. Even large industry players like IBM have set goals that just slightly exceed 120 qubits by 2028 for advanced devices. In contrast, QuantWare's VIO-40K eliminates a fundamental scaling barrier that has slowed quantum computer progress by a generation.

Revolutionary VIO 3D Architecture

The VIO-40K's power and scalability come from QuantWare's VIO 3D scaling architecture. This revolutionary design eliminates planar constraints that plagued earlier quantum technology. Instead, the VIO 3D design uses a custom chaplet module network. These modules are connected by ultra-high-fidelity chip-to-chip links. The modular, three-dimensional approach is key to controlling architectural complexity and ensuring quantum coherence across the massive number of qubits.

Importantly, the VIO-40K design supports 40,000 I/O lines. This high I/O density is essential for controlling, reading, and preserving the exact quantum state of 10,000 qubits. By using this advanced VIO design, QuantWare claims that the VIO-40K provides more compute power per dollar and per watt than prior quantum systems. This efficiency makes high-qubit quantum computation more accessible and energy-efficient for end users.

This innovation affects quantum system builders. The VIO architecture allows for the construction of quantum computers with unprecedented power without the challenges, performance degradation, and coherence issues of networking multiple QPUs. The higher “compute per dollar” boosts economic viability, changing quantum computing from a pricey academic curiosity into a viable, industrial tool ready for commercial usage.

QuantWare CEO Matt Rijlaarsdam stressed the VIO-40K's importance given the company's stagnation. Rijlaarsdam says, 'For years, people have heard about quantum computing's potential to alter sectors from chemistry to materials to energy, but the industry has been trapped around 100-qubit QPUs pushing the field to theorise about exciting but far-off technologies'. By breaking the 10,000-qubit barrier, QuantWare is encouraging the industry to use fully scaled computing solutions.

Open Strategy and Smooth Integration

QuantWare's deployment strategy spreads its technology advantage rather than monopolising it. The Quantum Open Architecture (QOA) commits the corporation to making the VIO architecture widely available to the quantum ecosystem. This bold, open-source method allows any organisation working with superconducting qubits the same as the VIO-40K to leverage this scaling breakthrough to construct more powerful processors. QuantWare's transparency shows its desire to become the key hardware provider for the rapidly growing quantum sector, which will accelerate the field's development rather than merely its own product development cycle.

QuantWare is also ensuring that its new hardware suits the HPC environment. The VIO-40K CPU was designed for CUDA-Q and NVIDIA NVQLink. This important integration enables a high-throughput, low-latency interface between scalable quantum computation resources and classical AI supercomputing infrastructure. Developers can use a powerful interface to use hybrid quantum-classical resources due to this compatibility. This shows a knowledge that solving the hardest real-world problems requires a joint approach that uses quantum and conventional computers.

Kilofab Deployment and Commitment Timeline QuantWare is investing extensively in manufacturing infrastructure to meet global demand for hyperscaled QPUs. Kilofab, an industrial QPU fabrication plant, is being built. In 2026, this Delft, Netherlands, facility will only produce VIO-40K processors. The enormous facility is expected to increase QuantWare's production capacity by 20.

Kilofab's structure shows its dedication to mass production and industrial scale. QuantWare is strengthening its supply chain and boosting capacity to become one of the world's largest quantum fabrication facilities to fast transfer the VIO-40K from lab prototype to commercial hardware.

After manufacturing and technological challenges are overcome, market deployment begins. QuantWare is taking orders for the VIO-40K, which will ship in 2028. Although the scaling breakthrough has already occurred, this timescale predicts the deployment of the first fully scaled, economically relevant quantum computers before the end of the decade.