Yearly Archives: 2026

GlobalPlatform has officially launched Pavona, an open-source silicon distribution designed to deliver modular, certification-ready intellectual property (IP) blocks and reference designs for secure hardware systems. Developed by the GlobalPlatform Trusted Open Source Silicon Task Force, the project introduces a platform architecture that moves away from monolithic open silicon designs in favor of a composable framework. Supported by twelve founding corporate and academic members—including ZeroRISC, Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy—Pavona establishes a standardized hardware root of trust with native, out-of-the-box post-quantum cryptography (PQC) accelerators for embedded architectures. Technical Architecture & Specifications / Operational Implementation The [...]

Aegis Critical Energy Defence Corp. (Aegis), in alliance with hardware integration partner SEETEL New Energy and Canadian deep-tech developer Quantum eMotion Corp., has secured its first commercial order in the United States for seven PWR Flex 261Q quantum-secured energy storage units. Facilitated by U.S. channel partner GG Ventures of the Carolinas, the milestone transaction marks the first North American commercial deployment of a fully integrated, plug-and-play energy platform featuring built-in, hardware-based quantum cryptographic protections. The end customer is a century-old engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm with an extensive base of Fortune 500 clients, serving as a strategic reference site for [...]

Qubic has finalized an initial commercial hardware contract with hybrid quantum control infrastructure provider Quantum Machines. Under the terms of the agreement, Quantum Machines gains strategic integration access to evaluate and benchmark Qubic’s newly commercialized Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (KI-TWPA) within its core cryogenic technology stack. The partnership signals a broader trend toward co-engineered, hardware-linked quantum-classical control planes, where component-level thermodynamic optimization directly expands system-level processing capabilities. Technical Architecture & Specifications / Operational Implementation The technical deployment implements Qubic’s KI-TWPA instrumentation to provide broadband, near-quantum-limited microwave signal amplification for superconducting qubit multiplexed readouts. Traditional Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers (TWPAs) [...]

Klea Dhmitri of Hamamatsu joins Yuval to discuss the company’s role as a photonic component provider for trapped-ion and neutral-atom quantum computers. She explains key technologies such as photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), SPADs, and quantitative CMOS cameras, and how scaling to larger qubit arrays changes requirements for speed, resolution, and integration. Klea also shares how customer demand is pushing product innovation, reflects on her unconventional path into quantum, and offers advice for those looking to build careers in photonics and quantum technologies. Transcript Yuval: Hello, Klea. Thank you for joining me today. Klea: Hi, Yuval. I’m glad to be here. Yuval: So who are you [...]

By Doug Finke I attended the third convening of a Quantum California event last week at the University of California, San Diego. Two previous convenings were held: one at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2025 and the other at the University of California, Santa Barbara in March of this year. We have been following the quantum scene in California since May of 2016, starting with our article titled Northern versus Southern California – Who’s More Quantum? While some elements of that original article may be out of date, a lot still holds true. It is important to understand that [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron announced an additional funding of €1 Billion ($1.16B USD) for the country's Quantum Plan. The Quantum Plan was original funded at €1.8 billion for the period 2021-2025 and then supplemented in 2024 by €500 million from a program to support public procurement in the defense sector. This new announcement is in addition to those earlier fundings. In his announcement, he noted an acceleration of quantum activity in both the United States and China and indicated a need to have a more proactive European strategy. The announcement also mentioned that France would commit €550 million ($638M USD) to [...]

Xanadu Quantum Technologies (Nasdaq/TSX: XNDU) has established a synthetic at-the-market equity facility allowing the company to raise via private placements up to $300 million over the next three years in Class B subordinate voting shares. Partnering with Yorkville Advisors, this facility gives Xanadu a flexible, opportunistic mechanism to inject capital directly into its treasury for working capital and general corporate purposes to fund its long-term fault-tolerant quantum computing roadmap. Additional information on this can be seen in a press release provided by Xanadu located here. May 22, 2026

The Board of Directors for EPB has approved a formal resolution establishing a $6.8 million USD joint funding partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The matching investment allocates $850,000 annually from each institution over a four-year operational term. The programmatic mandate expands regional academic infrastructure, funds applied research tracks, and builds commercialization pathways for emerging quantum hardware and software protocols. The initiative leverages Chattanooga’s existing municipal infrastructure, centering its operational workflows around the EPB Quantum Center. Technical Architecture & Specifications / Operational Implementation The technical framework builds directly upon the regional fiber-optic distribution grid, expanding academic access to [...]

Physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, in collaboration with Boston University, have developed a classical algorithm that significantly advances the state of the art in simulating complex three-dimensional quantum dynamics. Published in the journal Science, the study demonstrates that a novel classical framework can efficiently and accurately compute large-scale quantum annealing dynamics of Ising spin glasses across multiple lattice configurations. The research introduces a powerful benchmarking tool that challenges aspects of a high-profile “beyond-classical” computation milestone reported in March 2025 by researchers using D-Wave Systems’ 5,000-qubit Advantage2 superconducting quantum annealing processor. Technical [...]

Alice & Bob has secured a strategic venture capital investment from NVentures, the private equity arm of NVIDIA Corporation, expanding its existing €100 million ($116 million USD) Series B funding round. The investment follows a public policy milestone where French President Emmanuel Macron announced an additional €1 billion ($1.16 billion USD) allocation to the state's sovereign quantum strategy, Plan Quantique, alongside €550 million ($638.165 million USD) for microelectronics manufacturing. The financial injection accelerates Alice & Bob's dual-track deployment strategy: expanding its hardware-stabilized superconducting architecture and standardizing its hybrid code integration pipelines alongside high-performance computing (HPC) centers globally. Technical Architecture & Specifications [...]