Photonic quantum-computing company Xanadu and ASML announced collaboration to develop advanced lithography processes for photonic quantum hardware.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited and ASML announced their collaboration on September 9. The stated work is the development of advanced lithography processes for Xanadu’s photonic quantum hardware.

The announcement identifies Xanadu as a photonic quantum-computing company and ASML as a semiconductor-industry supplier. It says the collaboration aims to deepen both companies’ understanding of how advanced lithography innovations can be applied to the hardware.

This is a process-development collaboration, not an announced quantum-computer delivery or manufacturing-capacity expansion. The supplied excerpt does not disclose funding, equipment orders, process-node specifications, qubit counts, performance targets, or a production schedule.