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INFICON

Vacuum gauges, controllers and helium leak detectors

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Where it fits in a quantum computer

Sells Pirani, hot-ionization and cold-cathode vacuum gauges, gauge controllers, helium leak detectors and residual gas analyzers to research and academia, for uses from particle accelerators and fusion technology to space simulation and materials science.

What the evidence establishes

Lab & test products

Disclosed: INFICON’s research-and-academia page lists its vacuum gauges, controllers and leak detectors; their use in quantum computers is not established.

A documented cryogenic, vacuum, microwave or test-and-measurement product used in physics labs or electronics test. Adoption in quantum computers is not established by the cited source.

Component roleVacuum gauges, controllers and helium leak detectors
EvidenceDisclosed: INFICON’s research-and-academia page lists its vacuum gauges, controllers and leak detectors; their use in quantum computers is not established.
How we knowDisclosed The company’s own filing, release, annual report, product page or investor record describes the quantum-computing role. Where customers are unnamed, the listing says so.
Primary sourceINFICON — supporting disclosure
Company or official disclosure; vendor claims are attributed to their source.
Checked. This is the research review date, not the source publication or quote time.

Keep in perspective

Its research page names no dilution refrigerator, quantum-computing product or quantum customer, and the gas handling system documented here reads its gauges with a Pfeiffer controller. Use in quantum computers is an inference from the product category.

Diversified business exposure. This describes the breadth or role of the business; it is not an investment rating. A quantum-computing product, design-in or partnership does not by itself establish material quantum revenue, market share, or future returns.

Connections to the assembly

These links explain the technology relationship. The model is illustrative and does not represent an actual manufacturer’s bill of materials.

Gauges & controllers

Pressure gauges and flow meters on every line, read by the controller that sequences cooldowns and watches for leaks.

Scope of the company links: Pressure gauges on each line, a flow meter on the circulation path and a controller that switches valves and pumps run the gas handling system. Bluefors’ 2016 manual reads its gauges through a Pfeiffer MaxiGauge TPG 256 six-channel controller and switches valves and reads the flow meter through a National Instruments USB-6008 data-acquisition device; National Instruments is now part of Emerson. Its Gen 2 system (2024) moved to a PLC with EtherCAT and ‘latest generation’ gauges whose makers are not named. INFICON and MKS sell vacuum gauges and controllers to research labs without a documented dilution-refrigerator role.

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