ESCHER: Establishing Supply Chains for Emergent Quantum Computers

英国国家量子技术计划的一个主要目标是瞄准实用，通用量子计算之旅的关键里程碑。合作伙伴正在共同努力，为新兴量子计算和网络平台的关键组件、子系统和设备开发商业供应链。拟议的项目是对网络化量子信息技术国家中心工作方案的补充，该中心由牛津大学牵头，但通过发展工业界在国家方案工作中的作用，将所有合作伙伴作为参与者或贡献者纳入其中。计划中的开发将帮助工业合作伙伴为Q20：20发动机路线图中的关键部件建立本地供应链。容错量子计算的预期影响将具有全球意义，现阶段加强英国在这一领域的工业参与将确保研究人员从能够加速自己工作的硬件中受益。这一价值主张将使公司立即受益。

A primary goal of the UK National Quantum Technology Programme is to target key milestones on the journey to practical, universal quantum computing. The partners are working together to develop commercial supply chains for key components, subsystems and devices for emergent quantum computing and networking platforms. The proposed project complements the work programme for the national hub in Networked Quantum Information Technologies (NQIT), led by the University of Oxford but encompassing all the partners as either participants or contributors, by developing the industrial role in the efforts of the national programme. The planned developments will help the industrial partners establish a native supply chain for critical components in the roadmap for the Q20:20 engine and beyond. The envisaged impact of fault tolerant quantum computing will have global significance and strengthening the UK's industrial participation in this area at this stage will ensure that researchers benefit from hardware capable of accelerating their own work. This value proposition will enable the companies to benefit immediately.