Expected to start production by the end of this year. In March of this year, Turing Quantum, which has only been established for more than three years, launched the construction of the first photonic chip pilot line in China, which is currently the only photonic chip pilot line in the world with full chain research and development capabilities. After mass production, Turing Quantum is expected to produce 10000 wafers per year. Building the first quantum intelligent computing center in China in January last year; In April this year, it officially entered the national supercomputing Internet platform... In this round of "the second quantum revolution" represented by quantum computing and quantum communication, Professor Jin Xianmin, founder of Turing Quantum, hopes that Turing Quantum can play an important role. "Expected to end this year." When the reporter caught Jin Xianmin, the founder of Turing Quantum, the first domestic optical quantum computing company, and a long-term professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and asked when the company's first domestic photonic chip pilot line under construction would be put into operation, he provided a timetable. At this time, it was only over three years since the establishment of Turing Quantum. In March of this year, Turing Quantum launched the construction of the first photonic chip pilot line in China, which is currently the only photonic chip pilot line in the world with full chain research and development capabilities. The two teams with the highest financing amounts in this field internationally, PsiQ and Xanadu, do not yet have full chain capabilities. After mass production, Turing Quantum is expected to produce 10000 wafers per year. Quantum chips belong to the future intelligent industry among the five major future industries in Shanghai, and are also one of the "version answers" to solve the computing power bottleneck in the intelligent era. A quantum computing system with 50 photons has computing power equivalent to the world's number one Tianhe supercomputer for six consecutive times, while the total number of states expressed by 240 photons is equivalent to the total number of atoms in the universe. Since 2003, when he studied under Pan Jianwei, a leading scholar in quantum communication and an academician of the CAS Member, Jin Xianmin has been struggling in the quantum field for more than 20 years. With the increasing demand for computing power in the artificial intelligence industry, the development of Turing Quantum is also accelerating - the first quantum intelligent computing center in China was built in January last year; In April this year, he officially entered the national supercomputing Internet platform... In this wave of "the second quantum revolution" represented by quantum computing and quantum communication, Jin Xianmin hopes that Turing Quantum Energy, starting from the "Big Zero Bay", will play an important role. The demand for computing power is growing beyond Moore's Law, and the generation based artificial intelligence represented by large models is sweeping the world for lane changing and overtaking in quantum computing. The competition for computing power is further intensifying. According to calculations, the computing power required for AI training doubles every three and a half months, while the number of transistors under Moore's Law only doubles every 18 months. The scissor gap between computing power supply and demand continues to widen, and quantum computing has become a consensus solution. At present, there are three main technological routes for quantum computing: superconductivity, ion trap, and optical quantum. Among them, the superconductivity path is the most congested, and IBM, Google, Intel, as well as domestic companies such as Benyuan Quantum and Guodun Quantum are all laying out on this route. Jin Xianmin continues to be optimistic about the optical quantum path, as there are three prerequisites for achieving a universal quantum computer - the ability to manipulate millions of qubits, low environmental requirements, and high integration. The optical quantum is currently the best path to meet these three conditions. Light quantum chip refers to a chip that utilizes the quantum properties of photons for information processing and transmission. Light signals run at a speed of 300000 kilometers per second in a nail sized circuit, and the quantum properties of photon superposition and entanglement can achieve faster and more powerful computing power than traditional computers. To achieve this capability, it is necessary to integrate a large number of photon devices into the quantum chip through photolithography and achieve precise control of each photon device. Choosing the optical quantum path, which means starting from scratch in the underlying mechanism, manufacturing process, and system integration of the chip, is a tangible "channel switching". Taking materials as an example, since 2018, Jin Xianmin's team has been attempting to prepare optical quantum chips on lithium niobate thin films, an extremely difficult to etch material. "Without the experience of our predecessors, we rely solely on our own exploration." Jin Xianmin said. However, this path is not without advantages. Photonic chips are less affected by the process, and research teams no longer have to rack their brains to roll the process up to a few nanometers. "The process of our pilot line is 110 nanometers, and the chip performance is already very good," he said. Targeting full chain autonomy and controllability, the quantum era can no longer be lacking in core and soul. Unlike typical startup companies that start from a deep focus on a key field, Turing Quantum has been committed to possessing the research and development capabilities of the full chain of optical quantum computing since its establishment. The so-called "omnipotence" refers to the need to possess a series of abilities from chip design, packaging, testing, system integration, quantum algorithms, etc., and adhere to independent chip fabrication. This choice is related to Kim Hyun min's postdoctoral experience in Ian Wormsley's research team at the University of Oxford. At that time, he and his three senior brothers always had to design experiments on old chips, sometimes waiting for one or two years for each experiment. The situation of peers is also similar, and the team from the University of Bristol in the UK has changed three streaming partners in a row, but they are not very satisfied. "The iteration speed of photon chips is too fast. Often, before the previous generation of chips is completed, our new designs come out." Jin Xianmin said that since then, he has decided to build a chip production line and take the initiative in his own hands. Turing Quantum's current "omnipotence" is also due to Jin Xianmin's "rebirth to death" as the director of the Photon Integration and Quantum Information Laboratory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University after returning to China in 2014. At that time, the highest preparation ability of entangled photons was the 10 photon record held by Academician Pan Jianwei's team. To capture an additional pair of photons, the success rate dropped to 1/100 of the original. To surpass the capabilities of supercomputers, the number of photons needed to reach more than 50, and for every N more photons, the computing power increased by 2 times the power of N. Jin Xianmin took a different approach by starting from the physical scale of the quantum evolution system itself and improving the performance of quantum computing by constructing large-scale, highly complex, and three-dimensional integrated optical quantum integrated chips. After four years of silence, starting from 2018, the Jin Xianmin team has published papers in top domestic and international journals at a frequency of one article per month. So far, more than 40 papers have been published in top journals. This achievement is enough to make Jin Xianmin's journey up the academic pyramid smooth, but in 2021, he chose to start his own business. In the eyes of many, Kim Hyun min's entrepreneurship was influenced by his old friend Jeremy O'Brien, who was studying at the University of Oxford. During the 2020 Spring Festival, PsiQ, a quantum computing company founded by O'Brien in Silicon Valley, USA, is about to receive a huge investment. In fact, few people know that Jin Xianmin registered a company in the rented house during her time in Oxford. He has been waiting for the moment when the quantum computing industry will explode and preparing for it. "Becoming the 'Intel' of the quantum age." Jin Xianmin does not shy away from his ambition. Nowadays, Turing Quantum has established a fully autonomous and controllable dual core technology driving capability for quantum chips and quantum algorithms, with self-developed quantum chips, dedicated quantum computers, photon processors, quantum measurement and control systems, quantum EDA software, solvers, algorithm security platforms, and quantum cloud intelligent computing platforms, among other full stack software and hardware products. This highly forward-looking "all-around" layout is aimed at avoiding the past dilemma of "lacking chips and few souls" from happening again in the era of quantum computing. To cultivate the application ecosystem of the intelligent computing industry, one should not "wake up early and catch up late" or "how much impact can the implementation of quantum computing have on the current industry? How many times can the computing speed be improved?" This simple question from investors left Jin Xianmin, who answered fluently, silent. "I don't know," he answered truthfully, as these questions require more industrial "experimental fields" to answer. Quantum computing is a new computing mode based on the principles of quantum mechanics, with powerful parallel computing capabilities that far exceed classical computing in principle. Simply put, CPUs are suitable for performing binary type operations, GPUs are suitable for matrix calculations, and quantum computing is adept at solving complex problems such as optimization, search, simulation, and more. At present, quantum computing in China is still in the stage of ecological cultivation, and the development of application scenarios is not yet perfect. By contrast, quantum computing is rapidly entering every aspect of economic and social life on a global scale. For example, in countries such as the United States, Canada, and Europe, the proportion of companies with quantum computing departments has been increasing year by year; In the field of air transportation, using quantum computing to calculate how to place goods more fuel-efficient has become an industry convention; IBM、Xanadu、 Honeywell, Google and other manufacturers have established nearly a hundred quantum computing centers for users. Currently, integrating quantum computing into supercomputing centers and creating intelligent computing centers with different focuses and strengths has become one of the global development trends. In April this year, Turing Quantum entered the national supercomputing Internet platform, which is an attempt to explore the integrated development of quantum computing, classical computing power and artificial intelligence, and then empower all industries. The super computing power of quantum computers can accurately evaluate the interactions between molecules, proteins, and chemical substances; Quantum inspired algorithms can bring new 'solutions' to artificial intelligence, such as creating maps with centimeter level accuracy solely based on camera data, and solving navigation problems in underground parking lots Jin Xianmin is counting the various possibilities brought by quantum computing, and he hopes that Shanghai can seize the opportunity in this future industrial development. Industrial upgrading is a "dance of two" that concerns both the technology supply side and the industry demand side. Turing Quantum hopes to become an important participant and witness in the quantum computing industry. Regarding the inevitable thorns along the way, Jin Xianmin responded with the company's creed, "Nothing Difficult."