Foundry Successfully Starts D-Wave's Proprietary Process for Quantum
Computing Microprocessors with First Chips Delivered in Less than 6
Months After Launch, Confirming Key Improvements for Next Generation
Quantum Processors
SAN JOSE, Calif. & BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) and D-Wave Systems Inc., the
world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that
D-Wave has successfully transferred its proprietary process technology
for building quantum computing microprocessors to Cypress's
Wafer Foundry located in Bloomington, Minnesota. D-Wave selected
Cypress as its foundry and started the site change in January of 2013,
and Cypress delivered first silicon on June 26. Results from this lot
indicate better yields than D-Wave has achieved in the past, validating
the quality of Cypress's production-scale environment.
"The site change to Cypress will enable D-Wave to continue to scale its
technology to meet its objective of delivering quantum processors that
radically outperform conventional computing platforms," said Eric
Ladizinsky, D-Wave co-founder and Chief Scientist. "We selected Cypress
as a foundry for their ability to support our unique materials and
processing flow, while allowing us to leverage the consistency and yield
of a production-scale wafer fab. The yield results we saw on first
silicon exceeded our expectations and validate that Cypress was the
right foundry choice for our technology development and processor
production."
"Cypress is very excited to support a pioneering customer such as D-Wave
Systems in their quest to revolutionize computation," said Mehran
Sedigh, Vice President of Front-End Manufacturing at Cypress. "D-Wave's
selection of Cypress as a foundry, followed by the fast transfer of
their technology and the yield improvements we have delivered,
demonstrate our compelling offering. We expect to continue adding
innovative companies to our list of wafer foundry customers."
About D-Wave Systems
Founded in 1999, D-Wave's mission is to integrate new discoveries in
physics and computer science into breakthrough approaches to
computation. The company's flagship product, the 512-qubit D-Wave TwoTM
computer, is built around a novel type of superconducting processor that
uses quantum mechanics to massively accelerate computation. Recently
D-Wave announced the installation of a D-Wave Two system at the new
Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab created jointly by NASA, Google and
USRA. This came soon after Lockheed-Martin's purchase of an upgrade of
their 128-qubit D-Wave OneTM system to a 512-qubit D-Wave Two
computer. With headquarters near Vancouver, Canada, the D-Wave U.S.
offices are located in Palo Alto, California. D-Wave has a blue-chip
investor base including Bezos Expeditions, Business Development Bank of
Canada, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Goldman Sachs, Growthworks, Harris &
Harris Group, In-Q-Tel, International Investment and Underwriting, and
Kensington Partners Limited. For more information, visit: www.dwavesys.com
or learn more at www.youtube.com/user/dwavesystems.
About Cypress's Fab 4
Cypress operates its own wafer fabrication facility in Bloomington,
Minnesota, and offers access to this facility as a Specialty Foundry
Solutions provider. This 8-inch wafer fab manufactures in high volume
down to the 90-nm node with 65nm capability. It offers process
technologies that integrate SONOS-based nonvolatile memory and precision
analog/mixed-signal capabilities. The facility can handle ITAR material,
and it has been accredited as a Category 1A Trusted Fab for fabrication,
design, and testing of U.S. DoD Trusted Microelectronics. More
information on Cypress Foundry Solutions is available online at www.cypress.com/go/foundry.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions
that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system
value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC
3, PSoC 4, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is a
world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense®
touch sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad
solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in
USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide
range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world
leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous
major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data
communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on
the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit
Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, TrueTouch, PSoC, and CapSense are registered
trademarks and S8 is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All
other trademarks are property of their owners.
Cypress PR
Samer Bahou, 408-232-4552
samer.bahou@cypress.com
or
D-Wave
Systems
Beth Sanzone, 415-625-8555
dwave@launchsquad.com
Source: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
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