About
Aeponyx was a Montreal-based photonic integrated circuit (PIC) company founded in 2012 and acquired by Pasqal on June 3, 2025. Over a decade of R&D, the company developed a PIC platform combining Silicon Nitride (SiN) and Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) technologies, raising 22 million dollars in venture capital. The platform served telecom, datacom, life science, automotive, and quantum markets, addressing applications that need stable, precise optical control. The Pasqal acquisition brought Aeponyx's 27-person team and intellectual property into the company under the continued leadership of CEO Philippe Babin. By replacing delicate optical setups with chip-scale photonic circuits, the technology improves the stability of atom control and the precision of individual qubit manipulation for Pasqal's neutral-atom quantum computers, strengthening Pasqal's photonic control capabilities and supporting the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing systems.
Quantum Specifications
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