News
Product updates, customer stories, and company news from the team building Plaquette.
Quantum Business Magazine introduces Plaquette to Japan's quantum industry, highlighting a hardware-aware framework that moves beyond idealized Clifford-only approximations to simulate the physical imperfections that determine fault-tolerant performance.
Quantum Computing Report takes a technical look at Plaquette's unified simulation stack, from stabilizer and XPauli sampling to near-Clifford and full-state methods, and how it connects physical noise to thresholds, error budgets, and qubit overhead.
The Quantum Insider reports on the publication of Plaquette's complete framework, showing how hardware teams can translate device-specific imperfections into reliable logical performance estimates across superconducting, neutral atom, and trapped ion platforms.
Quantum Zeitgeist explores the research behind Plaquette, focusing on its ability to model leakage, scattering, heating, and coherent errors that simplified Pauli noise models miss, with results validated against full-state simulation.
Quantonation convened investors, founders, and industry leaders at the French Embassy in Berlin, alongside SuperReturn, to discuss what comes next for quantum technology as the sector shifts toward commercial deployment, industrialisation, and market adoption. Ish Dhand, CEO and Co-founder of QC Design, joined panellists spanning software, hardware, networking, and investment.
Inside Quantum Technology announces C12 as a Platinum Sponsor of Q+AI 2026 (October 25 to 27, NYC) and notes that C12 has adopted QC Design's Plaquette software to simulate, analyze, and optimize its fault-tolerant carbon nanotube spin-qubit architecture.
55 North announces QC Design as a co-sponsor of Q2B Copenhagen 2026, taking place September 9 to 10 at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen. The conference, themed Roadmap to Quantum Value, brings together quantum hardware, software, and infrastructure practitioners from across the globe.
Q2B announces Ish Dhand, CEO and Co-founder of QC Design, as a Quantum Computing Track speaker at Q2B26 Tokyo on June 4, 2026, alongside industry leaders and government representatives from Japan.
QC Design researchers Matteo Santandrea and Raphael Weber co-author a new paper, published in Advanced Quantum Technologies, showing that deterministic entanglement generation is essential for scalable photonic resource state production. Using semiconductor quantum dots, the authors demonstrate that on average only 15 attempts are needed to generate a 4-qubit resource state and 89 for a 6-qubit state, making efficient resource state generation achievable with near-term photonic systems. The collaboration spans QC Design, Ulm University, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Technische Universität München, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the University of Stuttgart.
QC Design launched Gauge, a Plaquette extension that estimates the best possible error-correction performance of quantum codes under realistic noise. It helps companies like PsiQuantum benchmark hardware architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
QC Design announces the launch of Gauge, an extension of its Plaquette platform that determines the optimal fault-tolerance threshold for a given quantum error correction code and noise model, helping teams benchmark theoretical limits and focus their efforts on the most promising paths to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing.
QC Design is featured on Blond & Quantum, where Founder and CEO Ish Dhand discusses how the company is building the EDA layer for fault-tolerant quantum computers: turning 30 years of academic research into production software, achieving product-market fit in six months, and reaching cash flow positive.
QC Design is recognized as a sponsor of the Monte Verita Quantum Codes (MVQC) conference, a gathering bringing together speakers and participants from across theory and experiment, continuous variable and discrete variable quantum computing.
Researchers at Aegiq Ltd. present QGATE, a photonic quantum computing architecture combining measurement-based and circuit-model approaches. Fault-tolerance threshold simulations (Figure 12) for foliated rotated surface codes were run using QC Design's Plaquette.
VIPress.net covers C12's partnership with QC Design, adopting Plaquette to reduce development time and costs for carbon nanotube-based quantum architectures.
L'Informaticien reports on the Franco-German collaboration between C12 and QC Design, adopting the Plaquette platform for quantum circuit design automation.
Quantum Computing Report covers C12's partnership with QC Design to integrate Plaquette for developing fault-tolerant quantum computing systems with carbon nanotube spin-qubits.
The Quantum Insider covers C12's adoption of QC Design's Plaquette software to simulate and optimize fault-tolerant quantum designs using carbon nanotube spin-qubits.
Inside Quantum Technology announces Martin Plenio, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Ulm University and co-founder of QC Design, as a speaker at IQT Nordics 2026 (Oslo, 22–24 June).
Ish Dhand, co-founder of QC Design, joins Beyond the Qubit to discuss fault-tolerant quantum computing and how QC Design helps hardware teams—described as the Cadence/Synopsys of quantum. The conversation covers logical qubits, error correction as an architecture and decoding problem, and why teams need to think about fault tolerance early.
Sifted profiles 11 quantum operators to watch in Europe; QC Design CTO Shreya Kumar is featured.
ZuriQ announces a pilot project using QC Design's Plaquette software to design and optimise fault-tolerant architectures for its Penning ion-trap platform.
Benjamin Wolba interviews Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, on the Future of Computing blog. They discuss QC Design's quantum design automation software for fault-tolerant quantum computers, the company's founding and €4M EIC Accelerator funding, and the vision of building 'AutoCAD for quantum' to help hardware teams simulate and optimise architectures.
Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, is interviewed by Yuval Boger on The Superposition Guy's Podcast. They discuss QC Design's focus on fault tolerance in quantum computing, including architectures and software tools for building scalable, reliable quantum computers, blueprints for fault-tolerant systems, and improvements to existing hardware.
Ish Dand, CEO and Co-Founder of QC Design, is interviewed on Startuprad.io after QC Design was named newcomer of the year and winner of the German Startupradio Awards 2024. The conversation covers QC Design's software for quantum hardware manufacturers and the potential of quantum computing in drug discovery and materials simulation.
Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, presents at the Q2B 2023 Paris Start Up Pitch Session hosted by QC Ware. The pitch session showcases QC Design to the quantum business community.
Sifted covers QC Design coming out of stealth with technology to help quantum hardware companies fast-track error correction and scale logical qubits. Founder Ish Dhand compares the company's licensing model to ARM and discusses pre-seed backing from Vsquared, Quantonation and Salvia.
