SAXON Q: A room-temperature diamond-chip quantum computer that plugs into a wall outlet
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-30
A roundup of SAXON Q, a 2021 spin-out from Leipzig University's Felix Bloch Institute, which sells a diamond-chip quantum processor that is radically different from dilution-refrigerator machines:
- Uses nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in synthetic diamond as qubits, requiring no millikelvin cooling and running at ordinary room temperature
- Plugs into a wall outlet and is designed to sit in a server rack or wheeled cabinet
- Built on research by Marius Grundmann and ion-implantation specialist Jan Meijer, with Bernd Burchard on IP
The bet: solid-state defects in diamond stay usable without deep cooling, taking quantum computing out of the lab.
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