Quantum Computing

The Osprey has landed: IBM's 433-qubit quantum processor

Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech

Systems10 Nov 2022 | 11

Tiny quantum computer plugs into top Euro supercomputer – because why not?

It's not how many qubits you've got, it's how you use them

HPC02 Nov 2022 | 12

Quantum startup demos spin qubits fabbed with existing tech

Quantum Motion demo based on 300mm wafers, targeting feasible 'fault tolerant' quantum computers

Systems31 Oct 2022 | 3

To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox

The black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely

Science24 Oct 2022 | 42

Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations

It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines

HPC18 Oct 2022 | 2

Intel: We're inching closer to mass production of spin qubit chips

Biggest demo yet of single and double quantum dots, x86 claims

Systems06 Oct 2022 | 4

Quantum computer to be available from colo datacenter

Not-a-cloud service can accommodate 'unique hosting requirements' - like cryogenic systems

On-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 1

US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing

Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China

Systems16 Sep 2022 | 9

Australian quantum startup enlists GlobalFoundries to develop mass qubit production

Company claims tech can detect quantum information at room temperature

Systems07 Sep 2022 |

China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system

A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search

Science25 Aug 2022 | 2

Quantum computing startup IonQ lands on Microsoft's Azure

Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’

PaaS + IaaS18 Aug 2022 | 3

Indian military ready to put long-range quantum key distribution on the line

Local startup can make it happen over 150km

Security15 Aug 2022 | 2

Quantum systems maker D-Wave takes the SPAC route

Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out

HPC09 Aug 2022 | 6

Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon

NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble

Research03 Aug 2022 | 82

IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe

Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing

Security27 Jul 2022 | 10

You're not wrong. The scope for quantum computers remains small

Systems Approach Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC

Science21 Jul 2022 | 15

BASF looks to quantum computing to improve weather modeling

Chemical giant's work with Pasqal could help improve climate change models too

HPC20 Jul 2022 | 2

Israel aims to build its own upgradable quantum computer

Crop of cutting-edge companies from home and abroad contributing tech to Israel National Quantum Initiative

HPC20 Jul 2022 | 28

Actual quantum computers don't exist yet. The cryptography to defeat them may already be here

NIST pushes ahead with CRYSTALS-KYBER, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, SPHINCS+ algorithms

Research05 Jul 2022 | 42

D-Wave opens up access to small-scale Advantage2 quantum computer

Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s

PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2022 | 5

McKinsey thinks quantum computing could create $80b in revenue ... eventually

Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement

Science16 Jun 2022 | 4

Businesses brace for quantum computing disruption by end of decade

As one expert warns overhype will lead to QC winter. Plus: Mystery Huawei quantum patent surfaces

HPC16 Jun 2022 | 25

Researchers claim quantum device performs 9,000-year calculation in microseconds

In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here

Science02 Jun 2022 | 35

Quantum computing startup probed in report, securities suit

From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning man behind the curtain, Scorpion stings hell out of IonQ

HPC01 Jun 2022 | 23

Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo

Teleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer

Science29 May 2022 | 29

Protecting data now as the quantum era approaches

Analysis Startup QuSecure is the latest vendor to jump into the field with its as-a-service offering

Security20 May 2022 | 2

D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system

For those that want to keep their data in the homeland

Science15 May 2022 | 10

BMW looks to quantum computers to speed R&D

Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition

Science12 May 2022 | 16

IBM: Give us three years to solve quantum computing scaling

IBM Think Big Blue claims it'll have a 4,158 qubit system by 2025

Systems10 May 2022 | 8

Biden orders new quantum push to ensure encryption isn't cracked by rivals

Domestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game

Security05 May 2022 | 10

Intel: Our fabs can mass produce silicon qubit devices

Updated If conventional silicon manufacturing processes can be repurposed, it could help create practical quantum systems

Systems19 Apr 2022 | 7

Intel ships mystery quantum hardware to national lab

Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside

Science13 Apr 2022 | 9

Terra Quantum nets $75m for cryptography, security work

Ferroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup

Science01 Apr 2022 | 2

Fujitsu claims 'major technical milestone' in quantum simulation

Uses 64-node cluster of classical HPC boxen to prove it

HPC31 Mar 2022 | 5

HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications

Interesting blue sky research aims to put the quant in quantum, although progress in sector isn't rapid

Systems29 Mar 2022 | 5

CEA sees future in waferscale quantum computing chips

French research giant, C12 see challenges, but prototype slated for 2024

Systems24 Mar 2022 | 3

Alphabet spins off quantum AI 'Sandbox'

Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt sticks his own cash into startup and rules as chairman

AI + ML22 Mar 2022 | 3

Take this $715,000 and find security gaps in quantum computers, says NSF

Yes, the ones that don't exist yet

Science18 Mar 2022 | 24

Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computer system

If true, Redmond is capable sustaining a stable working environment somewhere after all

Science14 Mar 2022 | 35

Germany bankrolls effort to build home-grown quantum systems

With millions of euros, we'll do you a QSolid, say scientists

Science11 Mar 2022 | 12

Saudi Aramco links arms with Pasqal to try out quantum computing

French startup helping oil giant see how its business can benefit from the tech

Systems09 Mar 2022 | 1

PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer

We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware

Science08 Mar 2022 | 10

HPE, Samsung invest in quantum startup Classiq

Signs that interest in the market is ramping up

PaaS + IaaS18 Feb 2022 | 3

D-Wave to go public after $1.2 billion merger deal with SPAC

Quantum computing biz takes the easy route to IPO and future capital

HPC08 Feb 2022 | 14

IBM forges entanglement to double quantum simulations by 'cutting up a larger circuit into smaller circuits'

Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise'

Science24 Jan 2022 | 6

Fujitsu wants technology to shape a better future – its technology, of course

Quantum, HPC, and AI to take us to rainbow sunshine happy land

On-Prem20 Jan 2022 | 11

Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems

Software01 Dec 2021 | 11

Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter

On-Prem30 Nov 2021 | 10

China plans to swipe a bunch of data soon so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

AI + ML29 Nov 2021 | 73

Quantum computing startups pull in millions as VCs rush to get ahead of the game

Now they just have to make it work...

HPC08 Oct 2021 | 17

D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer

And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024

Science05 Oct 2021 | 25

Big Blue's quantum rainmaker jumps to room-temp diamond quantum accelerator company

German-Australian outfit Quantum Brilliance thinks it can deliver product that runs on your desk in five years, for DBAs and boffins alike

On-Prem10 Sep 2021 | 31

Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

Comment Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source

Personal Tech24 Aug 2021 | 35

AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing

'Some forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternatives'

Networks05 Aug 2021 | 9

Google demonstrates impractical improvement in quantum error correction – but it does work

Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however

HPC16 Jul 2021 | 12

Kiss goodbye to privacy forever when brain-implanted comms gear becomes the norm – guru Whit Diffie

RSAC Top cryptographers open fire on AI, quantum computing, NFTs, and more

AI + ML17 May 2021 | 18