India, June 24 -- A Chinese quantum computing start-up has developed a control system capable of managing more than 1,000 quantum bits, or qubits, at less than half the cost of comparable foreign technology, potentially accelerating the commercialization of quantum computing.

QuantumCTek, based in Hefei, announced last Monday that it had delivered its ez-Q Engine 2.0 superconducting quantum measurement and control system to several research institutions, including the University of Science and Technology of China and China Telecom Quantum Group.

The system, which functions as the "nerve centre" of quantum computers by managing signal generation and control for quantum chips, represents a ten-fold improvement in integration compared with...