New York-based SEEQC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Taiwan’s Quantum Industry Technology Promotion Office (QITPO) - an agency established this April under the Ministry of Economic Affairs - to formalise a cross-border quantum-hardware and supply-chain partnership. The MoU was inked at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 in Taipei on September 3, 2026.
What the MoU covers
The agreement targets three tightly linked technology stacks needed to scale superconducting quantum processors:
• Cryo-CMOS & SFQ manufacturing - integrating SEEQC’s U.S.-developed IP with Taiwanese foundry processes qualified to operate reliably down to 4 Kelvin.
• Advanced packaging & interconnects - leveraging Taiwan’s 3D heterogeneous integration and high-density substrate ecosystem to connect superconducting QPUs to digital Single Flux Quantum control chips.
• Supply-chain formalisation - standardising room-temperature control-electronics sourcing for commercial multi-qubit systems.
Why cryo-CMOS matters
Scaling superconducting quantum processors ultimately requires moving room-temperature control racks onto cryogenic chips inside the dilution fridge. SEEQC’s architecture integrates qubit control and readout directly into sub-Kelvin layers using digital SFQ circuits and specialised cryogenic CMOS - a co-design pathway that only works if a mature semiconductor foundry can manufacture the underlying wafers reliably at low temperature. Taiwan is one of the few ecosystems that can deliver both the foundry capacity and the advanced packaging in-country.
Strategic context
The deal deepens ties established under earlier U.S.-Taiwan quantum foundry initiatives and aligns with Taiwan’s national push to position its semiconductor industry as an international manufacturing hub for cryogenic components. It arrives amid a busy quarter for European and Asian quantum infrastructure, including Quantum Foundry Copenhagen’s 5,300 m² facility and Jülich’s trapped-ion JION deployment.
What comes next
SEEQC and QITPO will now stand up joint QPU/ASIC development, testing and commercialisation workstreams across Taiwan’s foundry network, with the practical goal of qualifying fault-tolerant system architectures for volume manufacture. If it delivers, this is one of the first end-to-end supply chains for cryogenic quantum control silicon anywhere in the world.
Reporting based on coverage from Quantum Computing Report, HPCwire and Business Wire.