Quantum computing startup attracts EDA pioneer as chair February 08, 2021 // By Peter Clarke Quantum Motion Technology Ltd. (Oxford, England), a quantum computing startup, has appointed Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, as chairman. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli – known as ASV – a professor at University of California, Berkeley, is renowned as a pioneer of the EDA industry having been a co-founder of both Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Synopsys Corp. He was recently the chair of UK company UltraSoC Ltd., which was sold in 2020 (see Siemens takes over UK chip-level analytics expert UltraSoc). The appointment follows an £8 million round of fund raising that is intended to support the company in its aim of developing a fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture that is compatible with the CMOS manufacturing process.