CHIPX, based in Wuxi, is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Turing Quantum, a Shanghai startup.
The fab has installed a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) pilot line capable of running 12,000 six-inch wafers a year. Each wafer is yielding ‘about’ 350 working die. It uses a proprietary co-packaging technology for photonics and electronics.
CHIPX claims the devices form the basis of the first quantum computing platform that is both widely deployable and scalable to support 1 million qubits of quantum processing performance.
It is claimed that the chip is already being used in industries such as aerospace, biomedicine and finance.
“Achieving co-packaging technology for photons and electronics, chip-level integration and wafer-scale mass 
production of photonic quantum chips – I believe this is a world first,” says Jin Xianmin (pictured)) a physics professor at the university and founder of Turing Quantum. “We anticipate developing chips capable of handling larger numbers of photons in the near future.” he told mainland media on the day of the awards ceremony.
The university said CHIPX’s pilot production line is fully integrated, including design, wafer-level fabrication, packaging and testing through to system integration.
“This has enabled optical quantum computers to become industrial-grade products for the first time,” said the university.
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The PIC was actually a Scottish invention from PICO Electronics + General Instruments. It didn’t actually originate from (Arizona) Microchip. To quote Mike Myers from Saturday Night Live, “If it isnae Scottish, its kraaaaap!”
That’s why the microprocessor industry is so hugely successful – Scotland invented it. Pico beat Intel to the first microprocessor by about 6 months with, like Intel’s 4004, a chip for a calculator.
Your article is crap. For decades we have known the term PIC to be trademark of microchip. You should know better that to misuse it. Sure, lawyers marketers and the chinese don give a s. You should. I offer PHOTIC. Coin it. Use it. Make it stick. Leave PIC to microchip.
The article’s pretty factual, J, and it’s a bit hard to call the whole thing “crap” just because it uses the common abbreviation for Photonic ICs – which happens to be a Microchip trade name for its MCUs. Very good MCUs they are too but if photonics keeps growing as it is then Microchip will find it more and more difficult to claim exclusivity for the acronym PIC.