IonQ has announced a collaboration with Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, operating as CMC Microsystems. This collaboration integrates IonQ’s commercial trapped-ion quantum computing systems into Canada’s FABrIC Quantum Computing Sandbox (QCS), the country’s first national quantum sandbox program aiming to help academic researchers, startups, and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) build real-world quantum applications using cloud-accessible global quantum hardware.
The framework for this initiative is covered under a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), which designates IonQ as a listed cloud quantum computing access provider for the QCS. The QCS, operated through an initiative known as FABrIC, is backed by funding from the Government of Canada’s Strategic Response Fund (SRF) and managed by CMC Microsystems. The program aims to strengthen the nation’s semiconductor and quantum industries by providing engineering support and cloud quantum computing access to Canadian academics and small-to-medium sized enterprises.
“Innovation moves faster when researchers and businesses can work with frontier quantum computing systems,” said Lisa Lambert, Vice President, Global Strategy & Managing Director, Canada at IonQ. “The FABrIC Quantum Computing Sandbox expands access to IonQ’s commercial technology so more Canadian researchers and businesses can start building quantum expertise and real capability now.”
“This is FABrIC’s mandate in action: pairing a leading commercial quantum computing platform with the expertise to use it, so Canadian innovators can move from access to application,” said Gordon Harling, CEO of CMC Microsystems. “That’s the outcome FABrIC was built to deliver.”
