QuiX Launches Carina, First Commercial Photonic Quantum Computer for Datacenters After $17 Million Raise
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Updated · The Next Platform · Jul 29
QuiX Launches Carina, First Commercial Photonic Quantum Computer for Datacenters After $17 Million Raise
3 articles · Updated · The Next Platform · Jul 29
Summary
Carina, unveiled by Dutch startup QuiX, is its first commercial photonic quantum computer and is designed for deployment in HPC and IT datacenters rather than cloud-only access.
Dedalo, the architecture Carina is meant to validate, combines room-temperature photonics, fast feed-forward control and measurement-based quantum computing to pursue universal, fault-tolerant logical qubits.
CMOS-compatible silicon-nitride photonic chips and standard telecom components are central to that pitch, aiming to ease manufacturing, modular scaling and integration with existing datacenter infrastructure.
QuiX says Carina will first run established protocols and algorithms on an emulator to identify photon loss and other errors before informing later Dedalo-based systems.
The launch follows roughly $17 million in Series A funding a year ago and aligns with European-backed efforts to build a universal photonic quantum computer and strengthen the region's quantum industry by 2030.