From R&D to Market: the industrialization challenge
Maud VINET - Quantum hardware program manager, CEA Leti, France
Explore the multiple challenges of the industrialization path (reliability, scaling, design, value chain) and how to overcome them. See how collective intelligence a key element for success is. Discover QuCube framework, which main objective is to demonstrate a quantum processor for simulation applications.
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From R&D to Market: the industrialization challenge
1. ORGANIZED BY
JUNE 20TH
2019
Maud VINET
Quantum Hardware Program Manager
CEA Leti, France
From R&D to Market:
the industrialization challenge
2. FROM R&DTO MARKET
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION CHALLENGE
MaudVinet
Director of quantum hardware program
CEA-Leti
3. How to benefit from the quantum speed up?
Operation
frequency
Algo
optimization
Computer
architecture
1 million
1 second
1 day
RVanMeter, Communications of the ACM, 2013
DISAPPOINTED
LONELY
5. Risks What if I fail?
What will my community
think of me?
My research is very
veryinteresting
Figures of merit vs applications
I need to understand
everything
7. 12 years ago, 2007
71nm
Samsung 7nm Fin pitch is 30nm
VLSI 2019, June 13th Kyoto
What he missed is sidewall image transfer
8. Risks ✓ Where is the end point?
✓ Who are the competitors?
✓ Who is on my team (why do
I need a team ☺)?
9. Semiconductor context
Year of 1st introduction2014 2016 2018 2020 2022
14nm 10nm 7nm 5nm 3nm
Artificial
intelligence
Matrix
formalism
HPC
Low Power
General
purpose
Computing
CMOS
Circuit Power management Standard cells height scaling
Architecture
Multicore 3D heterogeneous integration Photonic interconnects
In memory computing
25nm TBOX
20nm LG ISPD SiC
RSD
Si channel
Von Neumann
Heterogeneous computing
In memory computing Quantum computing
FDSOI
11. Challenges for hardware industrialization
Reliability
Technology
for scaling
Design
enablement
Ecosystem &
value chain
12. Reliability
Technology
for scaling
Design
enablement
Ecosystem &
value chain
Phase 1
Understand
variability
Control and
decrease variability
Yield
Phase 2 Phase 3
Device optimization and
fabrication influenced
benchmarking
Components developments
Components interfaces
Architecture definition
System integration
Packaging
Libraries
Physical Design Kit
Synthesis tools Full EDA ecosystem
Friendly used interfaces
Ecosystem creation
Value chain identification
Framework for
industrialization
Start-ups and licensing
13. Reliability
Technology
for scaling
Design
enablement
Ecosystem &
value chain
Phase 1
Understand
variability
Control and
decrease variability
Yield
Phase 2 Phase 3
Device optimization and
fabrication influenced
benchmarking
Components developments
Components interfaces
Architecture definition
System integration
Packaging
Libraries
Physical Design Kit
Synthesis tools Full EDA ecosystem
Friendly used interfaces
Ecosystem creation
Value chain identification
Framework for
industrialization
Start-ups and licensing
14. 1st quantum revolution at work
• Industry
• Entrepreneurship
Engineering
➢ Large scale facilities
➢ Nanotechnologies
➢ Computer
sciences
➢ Mathematics
➢ Philosophy
➢ Social
sciences
students, researchers in fundamental quantum sciences
• Create the feeling of belonging to an adventure
• Leverage the physicits pessimism for risk analysis
and system design
Quantum physics
➢ Condensed matter
➢ Nanosciences
➢ Photonics
Collective intelligence, scout for the skills
15. Research organizations
Grenoble QuTech
Netherlands (Delft)
NQIT
UK (Oxford)
IQC
Canada (Waterloo)
NCCR-QSIT
Switzerland
(Zurich)
CQCCT
Australia
Creation
date
2019 2014 2014 2002 2011 2000
Structure
Leti + fundamental
research
TUDelft + TNO Hub national University Waterloo
IBM + universities
and EPFL
6 Universities
Funding Public PPP Public
PPP + private
patronage
PPP PPP
Size ~ 100 researchers ~145 researchers ~ 40 researchers ~30 researchers ~50 researchers ~100 researchers
QUANTECA
Grenoble
• Critical mass
• Skills diversity
• Leverage local specialties
18. Speed up in the quality of the qubits
Adapated from Schoelkopf et al
19. Speed up in the proposition of architectures
for large scale
M. Veldhorst et al. ,Nature
Comm. (2017)
M. Vinet et al., IEDM (2018)
R. Li et al., arXiv
1711.03807 (2017)
L.M.K. Vandersypen et al., npj
Quant. Inf. (2017)
J Gorman et al., npj Quant. Inf.
(2016)
22. Si based QuCube technological
developments
Motivation and positioning
• The main objective is to demonstrate a quantum processor for simulation applications
• The novelty of is combine VLSI Si technology with quantum engineering and algorithms to find a full stack path
for quantum computing
• Quantum chips rely on Si spin qubits, quantum interface is based on cryoCMOS, compiler interacts at multilevel,
thus saving overheads
State of the art
Technological
modules
QuCube quantum
accelerator and up scaling
Materials
Integration for good qubits
2D tile
Control electronics
Optimized multi-scale
compiler
A programmable 100 qubit
quantum accelerator
23. Si based QuCube technological
developments
Motivation and positioning
• The main objective is to demonstrate a quantum processor for simulation applications
• The novelty of is combine VLSI Si technology with quantum engineering and algorithms to find a full stack path
for quantum computing
• Quantum chips rely on Si spin qubits, quantum interface is based on cryoCMOS, compiler interacts at multilevel,
thus saving overheads
State of the art
Technological
modules
QuCube quantum
accelerator and up scaling
Materials
Integration for good qubits
2D tile
Control electronics
Optimized multi-scale
compiler
A programmable 100 qubit
quantum accelerator
CMOS
technology
Memory
technology
5G
Communication
protocols
Patterning
25. | 25
1 qubit
2021
2024
Gen0
Application
processor
2030
Quantum simulation algorithm
Logical qubit demonstration
6 entangled
qubits
Tackle scientific questions
• 2 qubits gate
• Fidelity increase
• 2D tile for large scale
2018
Technological challenges
• Development of technological
modules for a million of qubits
• First 2D array of 100 to 256
interconnected qubits
Technology and biz
• Demonstration of all the
modules together
• Architecture yield
• Fabrication of a million of
qubits
• Value chain consolidation
• Cloud accesss
100 qubits
prototype
Error
correction
Start of industrialization?
QuCube silicon roadmap
26. GPU
CPU HPC
Parallel computing
CLOUD/HPC
Architecture
CPU
Processor
System
Tensor Flow
Processor (TPU)
Quantum computing
QPU
Applications
Programming
Languages
And APIs
Compilers
Quantum
error correction
Critical
components
Qubits
Arrays &
integration
system
architecture
SoftwarefocusHardwarefocus
Source BostonConsulting
Group
High performance computing users
Researchecosystem
Another brain
Mythic
Habana
Syntiant