ColdQuanta Acquires Super.tech and Announces the Commercial Availability of Hilbert, the World’s First Cold Atom Quantum Computer; ColdQuanta Platinum Sponsor & Keynote at IQT-San Diego Quantum Enterprise
(IQT-News) ColdQuanta, has announced its acquisition of Chicago-based Super.tech, a world leader in quantum software application and platform development, and the beta launch of Hilbert, the world’s first gate-based cold atom quantum computer. Super.tech’s full team of quantum information scientists and software developers, including CEO Pranav Gokhale and Chief Scientist Fred Chong, will join ColdQuanta and lead the company’s new Chicago office.
“The quantum industry is experiencing tremendous growth as hardware and software solutions begin to take root in the real world,” said ColdQuanta CEO Scott Faris. “Since its launch, Super.tech has been recognized as an innovator in quantum software and benchmarking. The combination of Super.tech’s software applications and algorithms and ColdQuanta’s ground-breaking quantum computer, Hilbert, will enable customers to accelerate time to value.”
ColdQuanta’s Paul Lipman, President of Quantum Information Platforms, discussed the significance of these two achievements 
for ColdQuanta and the quantum ecosystem in his recent interview with IQT-News. Lipman emphasized the “. . . transformation of ColdQuanta into a multi-platform, quantum hardware and software company” in the interview. Lipman also pointed out the “Combination of ColdQuanta hardware and Super.tech software will maximize the value of quantum computing investments.”
Click here for details: Paul Lipman will keynote the topic A New Direction in Quantum Processing at IQT-San Diego Quantum Enterprise today, May 10 at 9:45 am PST.
Introducing Hilbert, The World’s First Cold Atom Quantum Computer
ColdQuanta’s Hilbert is the world’s first commercial cold atom quantum computer. It supports the Qiskit API and will initially be available in beta to customers through ColdQuanta’s comprehensive multi-tenant cloud platform. Integration with public cloud services will be introduced later this year.
“The commercial release of Hilbert marks an important and exciting milestone for ColdQuanta and for the cold atom quantum computing modality,” said Paul Lipman, President of Quantum Information Platforms at ColdQuanta. “Building on our recent world first in executing algorithms on a cold atom quantum computer, Hilbert demonstrates the power and scalability of atomic qubits and their promise to transform the quantum computing landscape.”
Super.tech – The Software Stack for Quantum Computing
Super.tech brings deep software expertise to ColdQuanta, providing customers with a broad set of applications and algorithmic capabilities. Super.tech will significantly enhance the capabilities of Hilbert by improving circuit performance via pulse-level optimization, optimized transpilation, and error mitigation techniques. The ability to deeply optimize the physics of quantum computers can greatly increase their efficiency and shave years off the timeline for addressing practical applications.
Super.tech’s full team of quantum information scientists and software developers, including CEO Pranav Gokhale and Chief Scientist Fred Chong, will join ColdQuanta and lead the company’s new Chicago office. The acquisition of Super.tech transforms ColdQuanta into a multi-platform, quantum hardware and software company.
Super.tech’s optimized software stack includes:
- SuperstaQ: The company’s flagship write-once, run anywhere software enables customers to write quantum programs in any source language, which can be optimized and executed on any quantum computer and native gate set.
- SupermarQ: Super.tech’s open source benchmark software is the industry’s most comprehensive quantum computing benchmarking platform, based on real-world use cases and applications.
- Applications: Super.tech develops quantum algorithms to address a range of critical use-cases across multiple industries.
“ColdQuanta has made a tremendous investment across the most important components of the quantum ecosystem including computing, emulation, sensors, communication and clocks,” said Super.tech Co-Founder and CEO Pranav Gokhale. “All of these areas require quantum information science and software to realize their full potential. As part of ColdQuanta, we have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in building a quantum company that will define the future of the industry.”
“With this acquisition, ColdQuanta is establishing an office in Chicago which will allow the company to tap into the tremendous talent and innovation from the University of Chicago, the Chicago Quantum Exchange and the city’s startup ecosystem,” said Fred Chong, Super.tech Chief Scientist and renowned Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. “Together, we will create an unstoppable force in quantum by enabling customers to maximize the performance and value of their quantum computing investments.”
NOTE: Solomon Partners acted as financial advisor to ColdQuanta.
Sandra K. Helsel, Ph.D. has been researching and reporting on frontier technologies since 1990. She has her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
