QShiva: Naidu launches five quantum systems made in Amaravati, says India will export quantum computers

Andhra Pradesh unveiled QShiva on Saturday: five quantum systems built in Amaravati, which the state calls the backbone of its Amaravati Quantum Valley. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu launched them at the PanIIT Andhra Pradesh Summit in Vijayawada.

"Today we launched five quantum systems made in Amaravati. All five quantum systems are named QShiva," Naidu said. In two years, he said, the makers had promised to produce quantum computers for Amaravati. "We can supply for everybody in India. If necessary, we will export quantum computers."

What QShiva is

According to the launch film, QShiva is a compact machine that takes a quantum chip from room temperature, about 300 kelvin, to below four kelvin without liquid cryogens. It carries 100 signal lines at up to 20 GHz and takes up to 10 devices in one load. The chip inside is designed, packaged and cryogenically tested in Amaravati. The film put it at 10 qubits now, "growing to more than 500 by 2028", and called the team behind it, drawn from Tufts, Delaware, Oxford, IBM Quantum, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and the Indian Institute of Science, "India's superconducting quantum foundry".

The system comes from Qubit Force. Naidu also unveiled the Srishti processor, a resonator chip for speeding up the characterisation and testing of qubits. A new design now cools to four kelvin in about two hours, organisers said, where it used to take 16.

'Are we only going to use them?'

L Venkata Subramaniam, who presented QShiva on stage, told the story behind the machine. When IBM, TCS and L&T signed up last year to bring a quantum computer to Amaravati, he said, one person asked whether the state would only be a user of quantum computers or would build them. "Do you know who that person is? I guess I don't have to say it. It is the Honourable Chief Minister."

Scientists from IITs and other institutions met in September 2025, he said. On World Quantum Day, 14 April, they launched quantum reference systems whose parts came from across India. "But today what you see here, it's made in Amaravati."

Some of those parts come from Machilipatnam. "To our non-Indian friends, we call it fish town. In fish town, we now make quantum components," he said, describing parts made in only two or three places in the world. He invited visitors to Medha Towers, where, he said, start-ups run by second-, third- and fourth-year students from local universities work alongside veterans. "What Amaravati has done is to give that dream wings."

Going to universities, and to Indian standards

QShiva machines were handed over on stage to Chandigarh University and to the SRM Institute of Science and Technology. NMIMS Mumbai, whose team missed its flight, is to receive one later. The organisers said 30 professors from across the state are being trained on the system every month.

The National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), India's metrology laboratory, signed an agreement with Qubit Force to test and characterise its qubits and to set standards for them, in the presence of the Chief Minister and NPL director Venugopal Achanta. "This is an important occasion for Amaravati because we now build products to Indian standards," the organisers said.

A laser at a fifteenth of the price

A Visakhapatnam team showed an external cavity diode laser, a tunable laser running from 405 to 1,550 nanometres that is widely used in quantum communication, quantum sensing and neutral-atom quantum computers. It was tested at IIT Madras and at Amaravati Quantum Valley, and its first customer is DRDO's Research Centre Imarat, the organisers said.

Its developer said Indian labs had been importing such lasers from Germany at about ₹1.5 crore each, with an eight-month wait. "Our performances are equal or better," he said, at a price of about ₹10 lakh.

Quantum for schoolchildren

The session ended with a children's book on quantum technology, which is to go to schools across Andhra Pradesh. Quantum sessions have reached about 15 schools so far and will reach 100 soon, the organisers said. A year earlier, L Venkata Subramaniam's Telugu book Quantum Nation was released for policymakers and researchers.

Naidu's message to the IIT alumni in the hall was that the world should now look to Amaravati: "From today, anybody will say Silicon Valley, you have to tell everybody we are having a better place. That is Quantum Valley, better than Silicon Valley." Read the rest of what he announced.