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D-Wave Quantum Inc. was the first commercial company to enter the quantum computing market. The company was founded in 1999 and developed their first commercial product, a 128 qubit quantum annealing processor called the D-Wave One in 2011. The Quantum Computing Report published our first report about them in August 2015 with the announcement of the D-Wave 2X. Their forthcoming quantum processor, called Advantage2, will be D-Wave's sixth generation processor. They are also currently developing a gate-based fluxonium processor to provide a solution path for some applications that cannot use a quantum annealer. D-Wave is now a public company after completing [...]

The UK government announced two sets of awards to further quantum research and development. Quantum Computing Testbeds Competition The first is a set of seven awards totaling £30 million ($37.6M USD) for the Quantum Computing Testbeds competition provided by the UKRI Technology Missions Fund and the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre. The awardees are being asked to will develop and deliver quantum computing testbeds at NQCC’s facilities in south Oxfordshire by March 2025. The awardees represent of mix of different qubit modalities including photonic, ion trap, neutral atoms, superconducting, and spin qubits. Once the machines are installed, NQCC will test the systems [...]

In a recent paper posted on arXiv, a group of well-known individuals within the quantum community wrote about the dynamics that are occurring in quantum computing as well as a discussion of the resource requirements to perform commercially interesting use cases. The paper points out four key trends that may enable a quantum computer to provide value in the near future. These include: Variational Algorithms Error Mitigation Circuit Knitting Commercial Exploration and Adoption of Quantum Computers The paper goes on to describe the public key cryptography issues and reviews many of the published papers on what resources would be needed to [...]

D-Wave Computing Inc. has named Kirstjen Nielsen to its Board of Director. Ms. Nielsen is a former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She is an expert on a variety of areas related to security, risks, and resilience. Before her service as the Secretary of DHS, she worked with many other U.S. government, public, and private organizations including the White House, NATO, World Economic Forum, and several others. A press release from D-Wave announcing her joining their Board of Directors can be accessed here. PASQAL has appointed Roberto Mauro as General Manager for South Korea. His role will [...]

Pasqal, one of the leaders in neutral atom quantum computing, has announced a partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Daejeon City. This collaboration aims to enhance the quantum ecosystem in Korea and globally. Pasqal, having established its local subsidiary in Korea, brings its expertise in quantum computing, R&D, and industrial manufacturing. KAIST contributes with its renowned researchers in the quantum field, including Professor Jaewook Ahn, who serves as a scientific advisor to Pasqal and will continue to nurture talents through its “Quantum Graduate School”. Daejeon City plans to establish a cooperation system with related research [...]

Mid-plane view of a tokamak being co-developed by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Credit: Commonwealth Fusion Systems Researchers from Riverlane and the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center are collaborating to develop efficient quantum algorithms for simulating plasma dynamics. This project is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program, which aims to expand our understanding of matter at high temperatures and densities and to develop a fusion energy source. The program will last for three years until 2026 and Riverlane's award amount will be approximately $400,000. Their award was one of six awards that the DOE made [...]

ConScience AB, a company located in Gothenburg, Sweden, is launching its first Quantum Device, the Qubit-in-a-box 0 (QiB0). This device can demonstrate simple quantum processes and calibrate and verify the performance of quantum computing test setups. It’s a significant milestone as it’s the first commercial quantum device fully designed and manufactured in Sweden. The QiB0 device uses superconducting technology and features 4 single qubits and 2 coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators, characterized with up to 80 µs qubit lifetime and 1 million in quality factor of the CPW resonators. The device is available off-the-shelf and can be shipped immediately upon order. It’s [...]

ORCA Computing has acquired the photonics-related assets of the Integrated Photonics Division of GXC (formerly known as GenXComm), including intellectual property and existing technology. Members of the photonics team based in Austin, Texas will be merged with Orca's own development teams. This group has developed an architecture call a Photonic Tensor Core (PTC) that provides ultra-low loss photonic integrated circuit for photonic communication and computation. They have previous won an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Microelectronics for Artificial Intelligence (MicroE4AI) program award for using this technology for AI and machine learning applications. They had also previously worked with BAE Systems for use [...]