Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

SandboxAQ has announced an agreement with the Department of War’s (DoW) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to join its Transition of Quantum Sensing (TQS) program. The effort is focused on rapidly developing and testing advanced Magnetic Anomaly Navigation (MagNav) technologies for the U.S. military’s use in autonomous systems and contested environments. The TQS program addresses the urgent need for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) resilience where GNSS (GPS) signals are unreliable or denied. SandboxAQ will deploy its proven, dual-use AQNav software, which utilizes quantum sensors and AI to navigate using Earth’s natural geomagnetic variations. AQNav has already completed over 450+ flight hours [...]

NTT, Inc. and OptQC Corp. have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at realizing scalable and highly reliable optical quantum computers, with a goal of achieving one million quantum bits (qubits) and establishing error-tolerant technologies by 2030. The partnership will leverage NTT's advanced optical communication and error correction technologies with OptQC’s expertise in optical quantum computer development. OptQC, a startup based on 25 years of optical quantum computing research at the University of Tokyo, is developing a highly scalable, room-temperature optical quantum computer. The company is currently advancing a large-scale processor targeting 10,000 quantum modes by 2028 and has raised $14.3 million [...]

Amazon Braket has announced the addition of Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)'s IBEX Q1 trapped-ion quantum computer to its service, marking the first time a trapped-ion system hosted in the European Union (EU) is available through a major cloud provider. The system is physically located in Innsbruck, Austria, and is accessible through the Europe (Stockholm) Region (eu-north-1), addressing data residency and technological sovereignty requirements for European customers. The IBEX Q1 system features a 12-qubit fully connected register based on calcium-40 ions. The processor’s performance metrics include a Quantum Volume (QV) of 128 (2⁷), an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 98.7% (error rate [...]

Bridgewater State University (BSU) has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Massachusetts Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) to fund capital equipment for the university’s Laboratory for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP). The investment will expand the Visible Spectrum Characterization and Packaging Hub (VISPACK) within LEAP. The new equipment, supported by the NEMC, is intended to train undergraduate students on industry standards for reliable packaging and testing required for prototypes in photonics technology and quantum computing. VISPACK will feature advanced materials characterization equipment, giving undergraduates access to hands-on experiments with superconductivity and magnetism typically reserved for graduate-level [...]

QuantWare, Q-CTRL, and Qblox have announced the launch of the Quantum Utility Block (QUB), a family of full-stack, pre-validated quantum computer reference implementations. The QUB model is built on the Quantum Open Architecture (QOA), designed to provide a cost-effective and accessible path for organizations to procure superconducting quantum systems at research or enterprise scale. The QUB architecture integrates three core technologies: QuantWare Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) (available in up to 41-qubit configurations), Qblox control stacks, and Q-CTRL’s AI-powered infrastructure software. Specifically, Q-CTRL’s Boulder Opal Scale Up delivers autonomous, high-performance QPU calibration, while Fire Opal provides automated error suppression in algorithms. The [...]

Quantum Computing Inc. ("QCi") (Nasdaq: QUBT) has announced it will debut Neurawave, a photonics-based reservoir computing system, at the SuperCompute25 (SC25) conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The system is designed to meet industry integration standards, utilizing a standard PCIe interface to combine optical computing with digital electronics for high-performance applications. Neurawave operates fully at room temperature with a compact design and leverages the dynamic properties of photonic systems for fast, energy-efficient performance. The system is intended for edge-AI use cases such as signal processing, time-series forecasting, and pattern recognition, adding hardware-based intelligence and data processing capabilities to QCi's quantum products. The [...]

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Skyloom Global, a U.S.-based provider of high-performance optical communications infrastructure. The acquisition is intended to accelerate IonQ’s full-stack quantum-secure communications and distributed quantum entanglement capabilities by adding high-bandwidth optical link capabilities to its global platform. Skyloom specializes in Optical Communications Terminals (OCTs) for satellite-to-satellite and satellite-to-ground laser communications, having delivered almost 90 terminals for Space Development Agency (SDA) missions by 2025. Integrating Skyloom’s optical networking systems is expected to boost data throughput by up to 500% and reduce latency for critical applications from many hours to under [...]

QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, has announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to demonstrate the integration of quantum processors into mainstream High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The proof-of-concept will be showcased at the SC25 conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The demonstration, hosted at QuEra’s facilities, features a co-located deployment integrating Dell HPC infrastructure with the Dell Quantum Intelligent Orchestrator (QIO) alongside QuEra’s neutral-atom quantum system. The infrastructure includes Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA GPUs and Dell networking equipment. The QIO, a prototype orchestration platform, is designed to manage and schedule workloads across heterogeneous compute resources (QPUs, CPUs, and GPUs). The [...]

Quobly, a pioneer in quantum microelectronics, and QPerfect, a specialist in emulation and control for neutral atom systems, have jointly announced a major upgrade to their quantum emulator, QLEO (Quobly Logical Emulator Online). The launch introduces GPU acceleration and full NVIDIA CUDA-Q compatibility, which is intended to accelerate quantum simulations by orders of magnitude and support the development of industrial-scale quantum systems. The upgraded QLEO integrates a GPU-accelerated engine leveraging the NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK, unlocking performance gains for quantum simulation. This new GPU backend achieves over 100 times speedups compared to CPU-only simulation starting around 26 qubits. The native CUDA-Q support [...]

A multidisciplinary collaboration within the Illinois Grainger Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has received a four-year, $4.8 million award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Army Research Office Laboratory of Physical Sciences (ARO/LPS). The initiative is intended to address a critical knowledge gap in superconducting quantum hardware by studying the origins of Two-Level System (TLS) defects. TLS defects are uncontrolled two-state quantum systems that have the same energy scales as the desired qubit, causing dissipation of quantum information and acting as a major limiting factor for superconducting hardware quality. The research, led by [...]