QuantumCore Expands Hardware Portfolio with Avalanche Acquisition

QuantumCore Ltd (QNCR.CN) has acquired Avalanche PhotoniQ technology for C$2 million, expanding its hardware portfolio beyond superconducting quantum systems. The acquisition includes single-photon detectors based on proprietary semiconductor metasurface technology.

The detector platform targets photonic computing, quantum communications, networking, sensing, and advanced imaging, and may also support neutral-atom and trapped-ion systems that depend on accurate photon detection.

QuantumCore already develops superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers for cryogenic quantum systems. Together, the two platforms cover amplification and detection functions around quantum processing units.