Xanadu has opened a $10 million advanced photonic packaging facility in Toronto, Ontario, aiming to enhance Canada’s quantum supply chain resilience and technical capacity. This facility is characterized as the sole end-to-end, ultra-low loss photonic packaging facility of its kind in the country, enabling domestic production of high-performance quantum components essential for building fault-tolerant quantum computers. The Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, officially opened the new facility.
Xanadu’s advanced packaging line integrates custom tooling and proprietary processes developed in-house. Its capabilities encompass ultra-low loss coupling for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), high-precision alignment, and hybrid bonding, all designed to achieve quantum-grade performance. The facility supports tailored workflows for research and development, prototyping, and pre-production volumes. Beyond Xanadu’s internal hardware roadmap, this facility will also function as a national resource for advanced manufacturing, available to external customers including academic institutions, startups, and industry developers of next-generation photonic and quantum devices.
This development establishes critical manufacturing capacity within Canada’s quantum ecosystem, aiming to reduce reliance on international packaging providers and foster a secure, domestic production of quantum hardware components. The initiative contributes to the expansion of a sovereign quantum supply chain in Canada, covering elements such as chips, cryogenics, electronics, and control systems. The facility received federal investment support from the Strategic Innovation Fund, aligning with national priorities to secure Canada’s capabilities in quantum technologies and translate quantum ambitions into industrial capability.
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June 26, 2025
