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The line produces and assembles the photonic integrated circuits behind Xanadu's Aurora system, the 12-qubit modular room-temperature photonic quantum computer unveiled in January 2025 that stitches 35 chips together with roughly 13 km of optical fiber. It doubles as a national resource, accepting external customers from academia, startups, and industry, and feeds Xanadu's roadmap toward a fault-tolerant photonic quantum data center of up to 100,000 physical / 500 logical qubits by 2029. 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