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In a major expansion of its North American commercial operations and enterprise positioning, quantum control electronics provider Qblox has announced two concurrent initiatives: a formalized deployment contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), alongside an infrastructure partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
The dual announcements position the company to scale open-source hardware designs across the U.S. research network while simultaneously embedding modular control topologies directly into high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence data-center clusters.
┌──► U.S. DOE / Fermilab CRADA ──► Commercialize QICK Platform & Supply Chain
[ Qblox Expansion ]┤
└──► HPE Infrastructure Tier ──► Hybrid Classical-Quantum HPC Integration
Commercial Scaling and Supply Chain Integration for the QICK Platform
Facilitated by the DOE’s Office of Technology Commercialization, the agreement between Fermilab and Qblox transitions from an initial declaration of intent into a formalized Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) alongside a full commercial licensing structure. Under this framework, Qblox will officially manage the manufacturing, domestic supply chain coordination, and commercial distribution of the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK) within the United States.
Originally developed by Fermilab engineers as an open-source architecture utilizing Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Radio Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSoC) technology, QICK manages real-time quantum readouts and pulse controls. The platform acts as a low-latency orchestration engine designed to stabilize and synchronize expanding qubit arrays and precision quantum sensing nodes.
[ QICK Implementation Mandates ]
Domestic Manufacturing ──► Transitioning Open-Source Lab Blueprints Into Industrial Scale
Supply Chain Safety ──► Coordinating Local Sourcing and Component Portability Within the U.S.
Workforce Training ──► Launching Hands-On Educational Curricula for Engineers & Students
Beyond physical hardware manufacturing, the CRADA dictates the creation of targeted workforce development initiatives. Qblox will design and launch structured technical training programs built entirely around the QICK architecture. This open-source instructional template is engineered to provide engineering students, academic researchers, and facility technicians with direct, hands-on experience operating low-level quantum instrumentation, establishing a uniform talent pipeline to sustain defense-adjacent and industrial hardware labs across the country.
Enterprise Hardware Integration in Supercomputing and AI Fabrics
Concurrently, Qblox has entered into an architectural collaboration with HPE to resolve integration barriers that occur when connecting delicate quantum processing units (QPUs) to massive classical computing arrays. As quantum platforms shift away from standalone laboratory benches and migrate into hyper-connected supercomputing environments, the control stack serves as the critical translation layer between deterministic classical infrastructure and probabilistic quantum chips.
[ Classical HPC Workloads / AI Factory ] ──► [ Qblox Modular Control Layer ] ──► Multi-Modal QPUs
The collaboration links Qblox’s multi-qubit modular control electronics straight into HPE’s AI-native high-performance computing fabrics. Led by Qblox CEO Niels Bultink and HPE Labs Senior Distinguished Technologist Masoud Mohseni, the joint engineering groups are developing high-fidelity, hybrid testbeds tailored for:
- Hybrid Algorithm Co-Design: Optimizing low-latency software interfaces to distribute workloads seamlessly between classical CPUs/GPUs and quantum execution blocks.
- System Interoperability Protocols: Standardizing communication layers to remove transmission latency during real-time hardware-level feedback cycles.
- Performance Benchmarking: Building unified metrics to analyze processing throughput across integrated AI factory environments and multi-modal supercomputers.
The combined hardware stack is designed to create highly scalable, deterministic control fields capable of operating consistently across multiple physical qubit configurations—including superconducting circuits, spin-qubit nodes, and trapped-ion setups—accelerating the deployment of hybrid infrastructure for industrial scientific modeling.
The technical instrument specification sheets, supply chain compliance logs, and hybrid validation parameters can be audited via the Qblox QICK Strategic Rollout Portal here and the Qblox-HPE Supercomputing Integration Registry here.
June 25, 2026
