About
Edwards Vacuum is a British engineering company founded in 1919 by physicist Frederick David Edwards and his father William. It specializes in vacuum and cryogenic technologies for semiconductor, research, and industrial applications, and is headquartered in Burgess Hill, UK. The company has been part of the Atlas Copco Group since 2014. In 2018, Edwards acquired Brooks Automation's CTI-Cryogenics and Polycold cryopump operations for $675 million, expanding its cryogenic capabilities. Its cryogenic products serve the quantum computing industry, where photonics-based and ion-trap quantum computers need bespoke cryogenic solutions. In February 2022, Edwards joined a consortium led by Universal Quantum that was awarded a GBP 7.5M grant from Innovate UK to develop an error-corrected quantum computer; Edwards was responsible for designing, assembling, and commissioning the extreme high vacuum system for the quantum error correction quantum computer (QEC QC). The combination of vacuum technology and cryogenic systems makes Edwards a key supplier to the global quantum computing hardware ecosystem.
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