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WESTCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
Cultivating and Advancing Talent Global Leaders
JOHN LEVY, FOUNDER AND CEO OF SEEQC, QUANTUM COMPUTING
With facilities in London, UK and Naples, Italy, SEEQC (pronounced “Seek”) is headquartered in Elmsford, and it’s developing the first digital quantum computing platform for global businesses.
Approaching the Quantum Computing Challenge Differently SEEQC combines
classical and quantum technologies to address the efficiency, stability, and cost issues endemic to quantum computing systems. e company applies classical
and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and through a unique chip-scale architecture. SEEQC’s quantum system provides the energy- and cost-efficiency, speed and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and bring the first commercially scalable, problem-specific quantum computing applications to market.
A spin-out of Hypres, the world’s leading developer of superconductor electronics, SEEQC is one of the first companies to have built a superconductor multi-layer commercial chip foundry and through this experience has the infrastructure in place for design, testing and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors.
Chip Manufacturing and Chip Testing Capabilities
SEEQC’s newly upgraded chip foundry and brand new milliKelvin product design and test center opened across the street from its Elmsford headquarters. ese state-of- the-art facilities enable the company to design, fabricate and test the world’s most complex superconductor electronics to support not just quantum computing, but ML/ AI, and sensor and detector devices.
“Most importantly, these new capabilities enable us to expedite our R&D process, as we can now design, build and test chips for our own quantum computing projects as well as the projects of our industry, government and academic partners,” says Levy. “It also bolsters the state of New York, and specifically, Westchester County, on quantum’s map.”
In 2022, SEEQC was selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program to receive a $749,575 award to develop large-format cryogenic readout circuitry for infrared bolometer arrays. Such arrays are used by NASA to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiation lež from the earliest moments of the universe’s formation – as well as other astrophysical phenomena.
A Growing Presence in Westchester
“New York has become a center for Quantum Computing. Beyond SEEQC, there is of course IBM and Qunnect,
as well as academic groups like New York University, Columbia, Syracuse and Rochester that are all at the forefront of quantum computing,” says Levy. “At SEEQC, we have doubled the size of our team and have attracted people to Westchester from all over the country.”
Top: SEEQC Founder and CEO John Levy
Above: SEEQC’s state-of-the-art facilities enable the company to design, fabricate and test the world’s most complex superconductor electronics for a range of applications.
© Courtesy of SEEQC, Inc.
© Courtesy of SEEQC, Inc.
© Courtesy of SEEQC, Inc.