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We reported last December on how utility company EPB was setting up a commercial quantum network in the Chattanooga, Tennessee metropolitan area using quantum communication equipment provided by Qubitekk and others. The EPQ Quantum Network will be made available to government, industrial, academia, and others who wish to experiment with utilizing quantum communications for various applications. EPB has now chosen Aliro Quantum's AliroNet™ software to provide the quantum network control capabilities. The software provides a network operator’s interface, to allow EPB operators to manage and monitor the physical quantum network infrastructure and enable end-users to define, validate, schedule, run and control [...]

The LoQomo 1 product is a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) solution intended for telecom operators, data center service providers, critical infrastructure facilities, and government institutions. QKD used the laws to quantum physics to send unbreakable messages that are provably unbreakable. Israeli-based QuantLR believes that ultimately, this will be the only means to ensure secure encryption key distribution because the classical software based PQC approaches cannot be proven to be completely secure and might eventually be broken in the future. A key strategy for the company is to provide the most cost-effective QKD solution amongst all the other choices in the market. [...]

QuantWare is a supplier of components for those organizations that want to build up their own quantum processors. Their goal is to become the "Intel of Quantum Computing" and their customer base currently includes government labs, universities and others. The company indicates that customers who can build up a quantum processor using QuantWare's technology and other purchased components can do so at one-tenth the cost of purchasing a complete system from a vendor. Their latest announcement is a 64 qubit superconducting chip call Tenor. To handle all the signal wires that would be needed to control these qubits, QuantWare has moved [...]

The three year project will be coordinated by QURECA SPAIN SL and will also include ten other academic, government, professional network, and industrial partners. In addition, two industrial consortia, the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony, and QuiC, the European Quantum Industry Consortium, will serve as advisors to the QTIndu project. The program will have the objectives of developing a nucleus of an end-to-end short-term training program in quantum technology for enterprises, developing tailored training programs specifically to the needs of companies in different business sectors, and providing a roadmap for scaling this to a wider scale in Europe. The Quantum Flagship program [...]

The statement of cooperation on quantum is similar to other agreements the United States has signed with the United Kingdom, Australia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. The cooperation will include collaborating in venues including workshops, seminars & conferences, sharing research methodologies, infrastructure & data, collaboration amongst various institutions, building a global market & supply chain, workforce development & personnel exchange, pursuing ways to address relevant regulatory, standardization, & certifications, and promoting democratic values & equal opportunity. Both countries participate in the Entanglement Exchange program which helps to facilities exchanges of researchers, students, and professionals in the quantum field. A news [...]

Picture of Quantum Machines' QCage.64 ChipCarrier. Credit: Quantum Machines Quantum Machines, an Israeli based provider of quantum control hardware and software, acquired Denmark based Qdevil last year. Qdevil develops and manufactures auxiliary electronics and specialized components for quantum processors. They have announced a new product from the Qdevil subsidiary which is a chip carrier called QCage.64 designed to provide a high amount of isolation from the external environment, yet good connectivity for control lines for superconducting processor chips. The aim is to help the chip minimize losses and maintain a longer coherence time because of the improved isolation. The carrier has a [...]

memQ has received seed funding from the lead investor Quantonation, Exposition Ventures, and the George Schultz Innovation Fund to develop of an on-chip quantum repeater built on the company’s solid-state platform for the quantum internet. A repeater is needed to send a quantum photon over a long distance over fiber optic cable and a key component for a quantum repeater is a quantum memory which can store a qubit's state for an extended period of time. memQ is using a rare earth based (Erbium) technology with their silicon-on-insulator platform to create this quantum memory. The company is currently being incubated at [...]

Quantum Brilliance is an Australian quantum hardware startup that is using Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) diamond to create qubits that have long coherence times, run at room temperature, have low power requirements, and can be miniaturized to fit into a 19 inch rack panel. Rather than saying they are developing a quantum computer, they are marketing their devices as quantum accelerators as devices that can be integrated into an HPC data center or used for edge computing. This new funding has come from investors including include Breakthrough Victoria, Main Sequence, Investible, Ultratech Capital Partners, MA Growth Ventures, Jelix Ventures, Rampersand and CM Equity [...]

Quantinuum has added to its management team by recruiting Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra to be its new CEO. Dr. Hazra has a strong background in supercomputing and high performance computing. Previously he was the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Computing & Networking Business Unit at Micron Technology. Before that he spent almost 25 years in senior position at Intel Corporation with the last being the Senior Vice President & GM Enterprise & Government, Data Center Group. Quantinuum's former CEO Ilyas Khan will remain with the company and will become Vice Chairman and Chief Product Officer. He will also remain [...]

Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany is one of the world's largest chemical companies and has an active quantum research efforts ongoing. They have partnered with several quantum companies already including a partnership with Multiverse to explore foreign exchange optimization and another one with Pasqal to look at the potential impacts of climate change. The QuPharma consortium was formed in 2021 with funding of a £6.8 million ($9M USD) from Innovate UK to build a commercially scalable application-specific quantum computer designed to tackle prohibitively high costs within pharmaceutical drug development. It is led by SEEQC with additional partners including Riverlane, Oxford Instruments, the [...]