Quantumcore Joins the Quantum + AI Tech Show.
From AI to quantum computing, the materials behind our advanced technology matter.
Quantcore manufactures niobium-based quantum components that could help make scalable quantum computing a reality, right here in the UK.
The AI revolution has demonstrated the transformative potential of advanced computing but also the physical limitations of scaling it. As the data centre boom continues, energy efficiency, cooling requirements, and processing performance are becoming critical considerations.
Quantum computing is not a replacement for AI or classical computing. Instead, it represents a technological accelerator, granting the ability to tackle complex, impactful problems in ways that conventional computers alone simply cannot.
Having spun out of the University of Glasgow earlier this year, Quantcore designs, manufactures, and operates the quantum processors and quantum sensors that form the core of quantum computers and advanced communication/sensing systems. Since launching in 2026, Quantcore has secured £2.5 million in investment, and has fifteen employees across design, fabrication, measurement, and operations.
Quantcore manufactures niobium-based superconducting quantum components, providing a unique domestic capability in an area of strategic importance, but also demonstrating that material choice matters. Niobium has a higher superconducting transition temperature than aluminium, which is standard in the quantum industry, and can operate at much higher frequencies. This equates to quantum computers that can operate at higher temperatures, with significantly faster processing.
These advantages do not eliminate the need for cryogenic cooling, but they do represent an important step towards developing scalable quantum hardware that is both actually useful, and better suited to the demands of current and future computing infrastructure.
Realising that potential will require more than advances in quantum algorithms. It will fundamentally depend on the ability to manufacture reliable, scalable, and high-performance quantum hardware. It is this hardware that will allow future HPC and AI applications to solve currently impossible problems, by granting them access to the exceptional power of quantum computing.
By manufacturing niobium-based superconducting quantum components in the UK, Quantcore is leading the charge towards a more realisable future of powerful and efficient technology.
