Named a Most Promising Startup
The 2026 Second Quantum Annual Conference and Q10 Awards, themed “Quantum Momentum for the 15th Five-Year Plan, Intelligence for a New Blueprint,” was recently held in Beijing. Government officials, leading researchers, quantum companies, and investment institutions gathered to discuss how the quantum industry can move from technical breakthroughs toward development at scale and as an integrated system. At the event, Traverse Quantum was named a “Most Promising Startup” in recognition of its technical foundation and growth potential in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
As a company focused on fault-tolerant quantum computing, Traverse Quantum was invited to the conference’s core forum on quantum-computing architecture innovation and industry adoption. The company brought its full-stack research capabilities and engineering experience to discussions about new development models and independently controlled system-level quantum-computing solutions.
During a roundtable on “Hardware–software co-design and ecosystem first: rethinking the path to quantum-computing industrialization,” Traverse Quantum joined experts from the China Electric Power Research Institute, MicroQuanta, and other organizations to examine the strategic role of co-design in building a quantum-industry ecosystem.
Building fault-tolerant systems through co-design
Traverse Quantum and the participating experts agreed that quantum computing is entering a stage in which foundational breakthroughs, engineering, industrialization, and system-level integration must advance together. Fault-tolerant universal quantum computing remains a long-term priority, and hardware–software co-design is central to reaching it. Future progress will require breaking down technical boundaries, strengthening coordination across the supply chain, and combining technology and ecosystem development so quantum computing can support real applications and new productive forces.
Traverse Quantum brings together core members of Alibaba DAMO Academy’s former quantum laboratory and senior scholars from Tsinghua University’s Department of Computer Science. It is among the small number of commercial teams with full-stack capabilities spanning superconducting quantum-processor design, quantum-control electronics, system architecture, and error-correction algorithms, with a focused position in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Drawing on both academic and industrial experience, Traverse Quantum has built a technical foundation in fault-tolerant quantum computing. The team has developed a complete fault-tolerant system-architecture prototype and reduced real-time surface-code decoding latency to below one microsecond. Its work addresses error accumulation in real-time decoding and system operation, with several capabilities positioned at the international frontier alongside work by Google, NVIDIA, and DeepMind.
Advancing engineering and the industry ecosystem
As demand grows for data-intensive processing and complex-system simulation, Traverse Quantum is addressing the bottlenecks between laboratory prototypes and engineered deployment. By improving the full stack from underlying architecture to applications, the company aims to contribute to practical milestones for the quantum industry. Its participation in the conference was both an engagement with industry trends and an opportunity to share technical thinking and help build the wider ecosystem.
Traverse Quantum will continue to develop core hardware–software co-design technologies and participate in the quantum-industry ecosystem. Building on its work in quantum error correction, control electronics, and quantum design automation, the company will work with partners to advance engineering deployment and scalable applications of quantum computing.