Qubic Cryogenic Amplifiers Win CA$1.5 Million Canadian Contract

Contract: Up to CA$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) via Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream.Hardware: Nine KI-TWPA units plus software, fall 2026 to spring 2027.Context: Follows a June CA$3.5 million seed and a May Quantum Machines sale.On September 11, 2026, Qubic signed a contract with an unnamed Canadian federal agency for up to CA$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) in Qubic cryogenic amplifiers.

The Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream buy covers nine Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier units, plus components and software, for cryogenic tests as low-noise quantum-computing receivers. Delivery starts in fall 2026. Milestones are due by spring 2027. KI-TWPAs from Qubic target wideband, ultra-low-noise microwave gain with projected heat below 0.1 mW per device. Conventional cryogenic amps, in company language, take nearly half a dilution refrigerator’s cooling budget. The units are built first for superconducting-qubit readout and are also described as usable with other modalities.Qubic skips Josephson-junction inductors and draws nonlinear inductance from the transmission-line material, a design it presents as more robust near the quantum limit and suited to multiplexed readout. The firm is a spin-off of the Institut Quantique in Sherbrooke and the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo.The unnamed buyer will run the hardware in a cryogenic lab and send performance notes back under the Testing Stream rules. Qubic, based in Sherbrooke with R&D in Waterloo, reports nearly CA$10 million in equity and grants to date.On May 26, 2026, it named Quantum Machines as its first amplifier customer.On June 23, 2026, it closed an oversubscribed US$2.5 million (CA$3.5 million) seed led by Two Small Fish Ventures, with UC Investments, Quantacet, and UCeed. CEO and co-founder Jerome Bourassa said quantum computing needs hardware such as the amplifier to reach utility-scale in the medium term.Qubic will ship nine KI-TWPA units to a Canadian federal agency for cryogenic tests through spring 2027.Find out more here.—Further articles, reports, and the latest quantum computing news may be found at The Qubit Report.The United States took minority stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of $300 million in CHIPS awards finalized this week, with GlobalFoundries separately IBM and Lockheed Martin set a Swiss quantum hub with ETH Zurich, and a System Two bound for Lugano is due at CSCS by year-end Quantinuum posted Helix results on Helios on September 9, 2026, with a 4.6 × 10^-5 per-qubit per-round error and a 99.925 percent logical GHZ lower Sign up to receive our newsletter and other reports.We keep your data private and share your data only with third parties that make this service possible. Read our privacy policy for more info.Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Our MissionContact UsPrivacy PolicyWebsite Terms of UseCopyright 2017-2026 | The Qubit Report | All Rights Reserved