US startup launches quantum-MRI platform to visualize currents inside chips

US quantum sensing company Euqlid has emerged from stealth with news of a 3-million-dollar investment round led by the Dutch QDNL Participations fund. The new capital will accelerate the commercial rollout of the company’s Qu-MRI platform, a quantum-based imaging system designed to reveal electrical current flows deep inside advanced semiconductor devices and battery architectures. The firm says it has already captured 1.5 million dollars in early customer revenue.

The core technology behind the Qu-MRI platform is quantum magnetometry, a technique that detects magnetic fields using the quantum properties of matter. Every electrical current generates a magnetic field. In modern chips, many of these currents are extremely weak and deeply embedded beneath layers of insulating materials. Detecting them reliably requires extremely sensitive sensors.