EV Group says it will show quantum-chip tools in Munich this week

EV Group says it will show quantum-chip process tools at SEMICON Europa in Munich from November 10 to 13. The Austrian equipment maker posted the notice from St. Florian on November 9. It says it is supporting chip developers on the manufacturing work of scaling quantum systems. The post does not give a clock time for the announcement.

The tools are existing process lines, not a new chip. EV Group lists fusion and hybrid bonding, high-vacuum oxide-free bonding, digital and nanoimprint lithography, and thin-wafer processing. It says those lines can be used across superconducting, photonic, spin, trapped-ion, neutral-atom and nitrogen-vacancy designs. EV Group will show the tools at booth B1241 in Munich from November 10 to 13.

The release ties the work to two named efforts, and does not price either one. It says the company is a strategic partner of Silicon Austria Labs on CHAMP-ION, which it calls Europe's first open-access pilot line for industrial-scale ion-trap chips. It also points to an earlier collaboration with Xanadu on photonic quantum hardware. Dr. Bernd Dielacher, the company's director of business development, said the hard part is integrating different qubit designs without losing performance.

The notice does not claim a working fault-tolerant computer. It says more physical qubits are needed for error correction, and that packaging has to keep performance as the chips get more complex. For trapped-ion chips, it says it has worked with researchers on low-temperature metal bonding that joins ion-trap and photonic chiplets from different materials. It does not give a qubit count, a customer order or a ship date for a new tool.