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UNSW Startup Diraq Achieves Breakthrough in Quantum Chips

9/26/2025

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Diraq, the UNSW Sydney startup, has manufactured silicon quantum chips at scale, achieving 99% accuracy in real-world conditions.
In collaboration with imec, these chips demonstrate high reliability using standard semiconductor processes.
The work advances silicon-based quantum hardware toward utility-scale systems tackling problems beyond today’s limits.
Earlier results showed high-fidelity single-qubit operations; two-qubit operations remained untested.

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Diraq, the UNSW Sydney startup, has manufactured silicon quantum chips at scale, achieving 99% accuracy in real-world conditions.
In collaboration with imec, these chips demonstrate high reliability using standard semiconductor processes.
The work advances silicon-based quantum hardware toward utility-scale systems tackling problems beyond today’s limits.
Earlier results showed high-fidelity single-qubit operations; two-qubit operations remained untested.