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Quantum

Machines that compute or sense with quantum states.

  • 6 theses
  • 1 bull
  • 4 bear
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Fig. 1Where the bets sit: windows from Early to Shut, left to right; each plot's area is the market's size by 2035. A double outline is a bull call, a single one a bear call, a dashed one a thesis with no call written yet. Washed: Quantum processor hardware, the largest bull call. 1 not yet sized are drawn small.
The marketsnumbered as the plan
  1. 1Quantum processor hardware
    • Bull
    • Closing
    • $5B
    • Support 82
     Quantum processor hardware (the qubit chip and the machine, every non-photonic modality) is a ~$470M market growing ~30% a year that sovereign buyers pay for, priced at roadmap multiples and entered with nine-figure rounds
  2. 2Quantum software
    • Bear
    • Closing
    • $4.9B
    • Support 54
     Modality-agnostic quantum software (the gate-synthesis, compiler and control layer plus near-term application algorithms) is a hardware-risk-free way to back quantum, investable wherever the IP abstracts above the qubit
  3. 3Cryogenic computing
    • Bear
    • Open
    • $848M
    • Support 54
     Control chips must move into the fridge for quantum to scale, but the layers worth holding are being claimed fast; component suppliers have a short window before margins go.
  4. 4Quantum memory
    • Bear
    • Closing
    • $196M
    • Support 54
     Quantum memory becomes a fundable standalone product only as a telecom-native rare-earth/erbium module; otherwise value pools above it in the network/QPU layer (falsified if a standalone module raises $40M+ by end-2027)
  5. 5Photonic quantum computing
    • Bear
    • Closing
    • $13B
    • Support 22
     Photonic quantum architectures capture ≥30% of useful-quantum-advantage workloads by 2030
  6. 6Quantum-sensing-photonic-hardware
    • Not dated
     The investable layer in quantum sensing (gravimetry, inertial navigation, timing) is the photonic hardware supply chain — narrow-linewidth / Brillouin lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and vacuum/atom packaging — which matures and captures value before the end-system sensor market does.