Aegiq Ltd.
Aegiq Ltd. is a UK company developing fault-tolerant photonic quantum computers using deterministic photon sources and silicon photonics.
- Technology
- Photonic quantum computing based on deterministic photon sources and silicon photonics.
- Headquarters
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2019
- Ownership
- Private company
- Products and platforms
- QGATE, Quantum computer, QLAS, LightWorks SDK
- Key people
- Scott Dufferwiel, Board Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Maksym Sich, Board Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Dan Hawksley, Chief Financial Officer
Chris Porthouse, Chief Product Officer - Website
- aegiq.com
Aegiq Ltd. develops photonic quantum computing technology aimed at fault-tolerant, commercially deployable systems. Its website says the company combines deterministic photon-source technology with silicon photonics to build compact quantum computers intended for existing HPC and datacentre environments. The company also describes a fabless semiconductor model and a full-stack approach spanning hardware, system architecture and applications.
According to its company page, Aegiq was founded in Sheffield in 2019 and builds on quantum photonics research at the University of Sheffield. The same page states that in 2025 it deployed its first photonic quantum computing system at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre. Aegiq names QGATE as its architecture for fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing, and also lists QLAS quantum light sources, LightWorks SDK, and quantum computer offerings on its site.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the sources below, retrieved by DesignQuantum.
- Photonic Quantum Computing to Enable Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs aegiq.com
- Company aegiq.com
Last verified: October 28, 2026