NoiseTech is becoming a fabless IC design company focusing on cryogenically cooled integrated circuits for quantum computing.
Quantum bits (aka qubits) of quantum processors are cooled to mK temperatures to avoid thermal disturbance of their states. For scaling quantum computers to 1000s qubits, their control and readout should be performed in a cryogenic environment. This avoids both the large number of coaxial cables entering the cryostat and racks of equipment.
The development of quantum computing systems-on-chip (SoCs) is a complicated task that requires expertise in many areas of IC design. This diverse-expertise requirement is not unique to quantum computing, however. Many commercial ICs contain multiple building blocks that require very different design expertise.
Since not many companies have the resources required to develop all these building blocks on their own, they instead license some of them from appropriate IP block providers. This concept is not yet available for quantum computing but is coming with NoiseTech becoming one of such IP block providers.
