QpiAI opens Bengaluru foundry for 128-qubit quantum processors

QpiAI has inaugurated a facility in Jakkur, Bengaluru, for manufacturing quantum chips. QpiAI has completed the second phase of its eight-inch quantum processing unit manufacturing site, which it says can fabricate flip-chip superconducting processors with up to 128 qubits.

A qubit is the basic unit of quantum information. QpiAI’s processors use superconducting technology and a flip-chip design, while the company presents the Bengaluru site as a quantum foundry — a dedicated place to fabricate these specialized processors. The company describes the facility as Asia’s largest, a claim attributed to QpiAI rather than independently established in the available reporting.

The new capability is smaller than the company’s stated destination. QpiAI says it is targeting processors with up to 10,000 qubits, but the facility’s reported fabrication capacity currently reaches up to 128 qubits. That distinction is the story’s boundary: a manufacturing base has been inaugurated, while the larger processor target remains a goal.

And so what, concretely? For quantum researchers and companies in India, the facility could provide a domestic route to fabricating superconducting quantum processors, with the work centered in Bengaluru rather than described only as a future research programme. The source does not report a commercial customer, a production volume or a processor deployed with users.

The immediate milestone is therefore physical and specific: an eight-inch facility, its second phase complete, and processors of up to 128 qubits described as fabricable. The next test is whether that capacity can move from an announced facility toward the 10,000-qubit systems QpiAI says it wants to build.