Written by Andrew Wooden
Tech manufacturer Toshiba has opened doors to its Quantum Technology Centre, a commercial offshoot from the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge Science Park.
It represents a £20 million investment from Toshiba into the development of quantum-secure networking products and will initially create over 30 new jobs ranging from business development to production.
The hub is a commercialised business operating under Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, and will be tasked with commercialising Toshiba’s quantum-secure networking technologies and manufacture initial products such as its Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system.
It will also chip in with the development of other quantum-based technologies such as chip-based QKD, which will apparently be ‘instrumental’ in supporting the mass-market adoption of QKD, and twin-field QKD, which could facilitate quantum-secure links spanning over 500km.
“Following more than 30 years of groundbreaking work in the UK, we are delighted to be opening the Quantum Technology Centre in Cambridge as our next step in further developing and commercialising quantum-secure communications technologies,” said Shunsuke Okada, Executive Officer and Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Toshiba Corporation President and CEO, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation. “This investment reflects the strategic importance of these technologies, not only to Toshiba, but in delivering a quantum-secure economy for the wider world, and we look forward to working with more customers and partners to enable this economy.”
