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June 25, 2025
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Quantum Breakthroughs Begin with Materials
By Jake Rochman
As a leader in the semiconductor and display industries, Applied Materials is at the forefront of driving the next revolutionary technologies with our expertise in materials engineering. Among these technologies, quantum computing stands out as one of the most transformative advancements of the future. With the potential to solve complex problems that are beyond the capabilities of today’s most powerful supercomputers, quantum computing has garnered significant attention and excitement.
Applied Materials recently hosted an Open Innovation Workshop, where leaders from academia, industry and government gathered to focus on high-value problems and opportunities in quantum technologies including quantum computing, networking and sensing. The event follows last year’s workshop that focused on enhanced, lower error qubits and strategies to scale quantum computing. (Read more about last year’s workshop here.)
Engaging with the Experts
Applied Materials convened leading experts to evaluate the recent advances and upcoming challenges with quantum technology hardware. The primary focus was identifying the key initiatives to make quantum technology a reality.
Experts from the leading quantum computing companies shared their most recent results toward error-corrected logical qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing, while highlighting the need for advanced fabrication and packaging to scale their hardware systems for industrial applications.
Technologists from Applied Materials shared the broad capabilities of materials engineering that enable the most-advanced node semiconductors and new photonic applications, which sparked significant interest in leveraging these capabilities for quantum technologies.
In collaboration with Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, several promising startups showcased innovative technologies that are critical additions to the quantum technology ecosystem.
Following the workshop, attendees visited the Maydan Technology Center to witness Applied Materials’ semiconductor capabilities in action, where over 120 state-of-the-art chip manufacturing tools are used for rapid development and testing of the latest semiconductor process technologies and equipment.
Applied Materials Maydan Technology Center
Enabling the Quantum Computing Inflection with Materials Engineering
Quantum computing has recently experienced significant progress with demonstrations of logical qubits and quantum error correction by leaders in the industry. While these latest developments have sparked widespread enthusiasm, they also highlight the critical need to improve physical qubit error rates to reduce logical qubit overhead and implement scalable hardware architectures to enable rapid growth of the size of quantum computer processors.
In order to reduce error rates and scale quantum hardware, it is crucial for the quantum computing industry to leverage the advanced capabilities of the semiconductor industry, where high-performance solutions at an industrial scale are implemented every day.
A fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of solving important problems is a tall task. It requires collaboration between different players in the quantum computing ecosystem including architecture, control systems, supercomputer processing, applications, algorithms and qubit hardware. It is critical for leaders across the industry to define requirements and develop technical solutions to enable fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Applied Materials is ready to provide its expertise in materials engineering to enable the next generation of quantum computing hardware that requires low error rates, high uniformity and repeatability within large-scale systems. We believe collaboration across the quantum technology ecosystem is needed to fulfill the potential of quantum technologies.
Visit our collaboration site to learn more about Applied’s open innovation strategy and how we network with startups, research institutes, leading universities and others throughout the ecosystem. Follow Applied Garage and Applied Ventures on LinkedIn to join our community of entrepreneurs, academics and industry partners exploring the next wave of emerging technologies.
Jake Rochman
Quantum Device Engineer, Office of the CTO
Jake Rochman is a Quantum Device Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Applied Materials. Prior to joining Applied in 2024, he worked as a product engineer in the semiconductor industry. Jake obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked on quantum nanophotonic devices using rare-earth ions including microwave-to-optical transducers, single ion qubits and quantum memories.