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Rigetti receives $8.4M order for 108-qubit quantum computer from India's C-DAC
Rigetti Computing, Inc.
- Purchase order valued at $8.4M for a 108-qubit quantum computer installed at C-DAC's Bengaluru center.
- System deployment scheduled for H2 2026; includes Rigetti's chiplet-based architecture for fault-tolerant scaling.
- C-DAC is India's premier R&D organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Follows September 2025 MoU between Rigetti and C-DAC for co-development of hybrid quantum-classical systems.
- CEO Dr. Subodh Kulkarni cites growing demand for on-premises quantum computers from national governments.