A Chinese quantum startup just launched a cloud platform with 100 qubit chips and a roadmap all the way to 2030

[Reacher Mitchell]

A new option for anyone wanting hands on access to real quantum hardware

Logical Qubit Technology hosted its Quantum Day 2026 event on July 9, officially unveiling a superconducting quantum computing cloud platform aimed at universities, research institutions, and commercial users across biomedicine, chemistry, materials, energy, AI, finance and logistics. The pitch is straightforward, lower the barrier to accessing genuinely capable quantum hardware, since full quantum computer systems remain prohibitively expensive and useful quantum cloud capacity has stayed scarce

Three levels of access, from simple to laboratory grade

The platform offers access at three distinct levels. At the physical qubit level, users can run arbitrary single qubit gates in 20 nanoseconds with up to 99.97 percent fidelity, submitting algorithms as simple code that gets translated into quantum circuits automatically. At the logical qubit level, built around a newer AGate-165 chip, readout time has been cut from 2 microseconds down to about 600 nanoseconds, with distance-9 repetition code and distance-3 surface code algorithms available for researchers to test error correction schemes directly. At the pulse control level, advanced users can directly manipulate the physical waveforms controlling each qubit with 1 nanosecond timing precision, effectively running a full quantum lab remotely without owning any hardware themselves

Real partnerships, not just a chip launch

The company announced a strategic partnership with pharmaceutical firm Pharmaron specifically to explore how quantum cloud platforms and drug companies can collaborate through joint laboratories, alongside partnerships with several quantum software companies building on top of the platform. CEO Zhen Wang also shared a genuinely useful data point on the field's overall progress, coherence time in superconducting qubits has improved three orders of magnitude industry wide over the past two decades, from 1 microsecond to the millisecond range, and Logical Qubit Technology itself recently hit over 890 microseconds on a small scale chip, with plans to transfer that improvement to full hundred qubit systems next

An unusually specific public roadmap

The company laid out year by year targets through the end of the decade, aiming to break through the fault tolerance threshold with error rates around one in a thousand by 2027, achieve deep integration with drug discovery and materials simulation by 2028 that actually beats classical computers on real problems, and complete engineering of tens of thousands of physical qubits with error rates down to one in a hundred million by 2029. Whether that timeline holds is obviously an open question, but publishing this level of specific, falsifiable commitment is a genuinely useful contrast to the vaguer roadmaps most quantum companies tend to offer

Logical Qubit Technology Launches Quantum Cloud Platform for Superconducting Quantum Computingthequantuminsider.com

[Mike]

Publishing a specific year by year roadmap with actual falsifiable numbers instead of vague someday promises deserves real credit, it's easy to check back against this in a couple years and hold them accountable

[RVD17]

Being able to directly manipulate pulse level waveforms with nanosecond precision remotely is genuinely laboratory grade access, that's a lot more than most cloud quantum platforms offer casual users