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The first grant was for an amount of €350,000 and was provided by the Province of South Holland. It was given to a research collaboration consisting of collaboration between Orange Quantum Systems, Delft Circuits, and Leiden Cryogenics which are researching the practical application of quantum technology. The second grant was in the amount of €200,000 and was provided to the ImpaQT initiative by Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague and the Province of South Holland. The ImpaQT initiative is working to provide a value chain consisting of componentsd and related services for organizations wishing to build their own quantum computer using components provides [...]

Synergy Quantum is a started based in Geneva, Switzerland that was formed in 2018 to pursue products in the Post Quantum Encryption (PQE) security area. The amount of the funding round was not disclosed and the only information about the investors were that they consisted of Swiss and international private investors. In their news release Synergy Quantum noted that they are gaining customer traction with three contracts including projects with a Swiss Private Bank for a client communication and data protection app, a research and design project of a post quantum encrypted secure chip with a major European Semiconductor company, and [...]

Quandela has hired Jean Senellart as Head of Software Engineering. He had previously held multiple positions at Systran which he originally joined in 1999. A Twitter posting announcing his appointment can be found here. Multiverse Computing has appointed Karina Robinson as Senior Advisor. Robinson is CEO of Robinson Hambro Ltd and a non-executive director on the board of Atlanti, an Anglo-Swiss fund management group based in Geneva. A news release announcing her appointment is available here. And Rigetti has announced the former COO Taryn Naidu has left the company and Eric Ostby has joined the company as Vice-President of Product. Ostby [...]

Cambridge Quantum, a subsidiary of Quantinuum, has opened a new office in Munich, Germany under the legal name of Cambridge Quantum Deutschland (CQD). The location already has a scientific team there that develops algorithms and software to design, simulate, and commercialize quantum materials. The team of scientists will be developing other applications for quantum computing in collaboration with industry, government and academic partners in areas including chemistry, optimization, finance, cybersecurity, quantum machine learning and natural language processing. Additional information can be found in a news release posted on the Quantinuum website here April 21, 2022.

Although development activities for programmable neutral atom quantum computers started later than developments in superconducting and ion trap quantum computers, some people see a lot of future potential in this technology due to its long coherence times, identical qubit characteristics, and potential for rapid scaling. But there previously didn't seem to have been any technical papers published describing someone actually running a quantum algorithm on one of these processors. But now, a team consisting of researchers from ColdQuanta, Riverlane, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been able to implement three different algorithms including preparation of entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, quantum phase [...]

The funds will be provided to the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) and Western New England University by The Innovation Institute at the MassTech Collective, an organization formed by the Massachusetts government to spur innovation in the state, as part of a matching grant program with a total budget of $1,999,774. The three-year project will also include collaborations with three commercial companies, Millimeter Wave Systems, LLC in Amherst, Cohasset’s Quantum Microwave, and JanisULT, located in Woburn. The funds will be used to install a 20 millikelvin dilution refrigerator for state-of-the-art quantum hardware validation and development at UMass Boston and 50 millikelvin [...]

Quix Quantum has added to its photonic processing chip portfolio with a version that is optimized for use at the near-infrared wavelength range (900-970 nm) compatible with quantum dot light sources such as those made with InGaAs materials. Their previous products were optimized for operation in the telecom compatible wavelengths of 1530 to 1565 nm. The chip provides similar functionality to their previous chips and has 12 input modes with a fidelity specification of 98.6% with a mean optical loss of 3.4 db/mode. An advantage of quantum dot light sources is that they have the potential of being integrated on-chip using [...]

The grant was received from Barzan Holdings, Qatar’s leading industrial defense provider, and will be used to establish the Qatar Center for Quantum Computing (QC2) at HBKU. The center will conduct research in such areas as quantum computing, quantum cryptography and quantum artificial intelligence (AI). For more, you can view a news release from HBKU that can be found here. April 16, 2022

The two companies will work together to develop this processor and plan on offering it in the European and Indian markets. QpiAI is providing the hardware and software applications software platforms and QuantrolOx will provide the automated tuning and characterization software. QuantrolOx has offices in Oxford, England and Espoo, Finland and QpiAI, which currently has offices in Milpitas, California and Bengaluru, India, is planning on opening a new office in Finland. The 25 qubit processor will be based upon superconducting technology, but the QpiAI plans on eventually developing a 2048 qubit machine using CMOS based spin qubits. Additional information about this [...]

The award will help QC Ware expand a quantum software ecosystem in Europe and develop two new APIs for deep learning and finance that will be integrated into QC Ware's Forge Software as a Service. QC Ware plans on using the funds to hire 10 new software employees in its Paris office within the next three years. This is the second award that QC Ware has won from Bpifrance. In April 2020, QC Ware received an award as part of the BPIFrance's Concours d'Innovation i-Nov competition. Bpifrance (BPI is the acronym of Banque Publique d'Investissement) is a French government agency previously known [...]