Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips

techcrunch.comPublished: 4/28/2025

Summary

Here are some of the companies behind the main quantum chip projects that are worth tracking. Unlike companies focusing only on chips, Alice & Bob is developing a full quantum computing system. While this is the company’s first quantum chip, AWS had previously launched Braket, a quantum computing service, in partnership with D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, and others. QuantinuumQuantinuum is a quantum computing company formed in 2021 by the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions. SEEQC is leading the U.K.-supported QuPharma project to explore how quantum computing can accelerate drug discovery, in partnership with BASF and Merck.