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Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has completed the acquisition of advanced packaging foundry NHanced Semiconductors, Inc. for a combination of cash and stock valued at $73.1 million. The transaction includes up to an additional $72.0 million in potential payouts if specific performance targets are achieved. The acquisition marks a transition for QCi from research-driven prototyping to scalable commercial manufacturing, establishing a vertically integrated pipeline that spans development through chip fabrication. Moving forward, NHanced will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of QCi, maintaining services for its existing customer base while integrating into QCi's broader quantum optics and photonics roadmap. The acquisition effectively [...]

Canadian quantum hardware company Qubic has closed an oversubscribed seed financing round totaling $2.5 million USD ($3.5 million CAD). The investment was led by deep-tech venture firm Two Small Fish Ventures, with participation from UC Investments, Quantacet, and UCeed. A spin-off of both the Institut Quantique and the Institute for Quantum Computing, the company will deploy the capital to accelerate the development of its microwave component portfolio, expand manufacturing throughput, and bring a specialized radio-frequency (RF) quantum sensing platform to market. Qubic’s core technology addresses a primary hardware bottleneck preventing superconducting quantum computers from scaling up: the thermal and power restrictions [...]

Barcelona-based quantum developer Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech has released QiliSDK 0.2.0, an open-source Python framework designed to bridge the structural divide between digital gate-based programming and analog Hamiltonian time evolution. Most quantum software development kits restrict developers to a single physical computing paradigm—either compiling standard quantum circuit logic or managing continuous analogue energy schedules. QiliSDK 0.2.0 establishes a single unified, backend-agnostic API. This abstraction tier enables researchers to write a single high-level codebase and toggle execution between local CPUs, accelerated GPUs, or real digital and analog Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) by modifying a single line of configuration code. Three-Tier Architecture and Native [...]

Zapata Quantum and NVIDIA have partnered to integrate agentic AI into quantum algorithm development by automating quantum resource estimation workflows. The collaboration focuses on streamlining a process used to determine the exact hardware specifications, error-correction budgets, and physical execution times required to run quantum applications. Initial engineering efforts are directed at complex quantum chemistry challenges, including pharmaceutical drug discovery, energy grid optimization, and advanced materials development, where benchmarking quantum algorithms has historically stood as a significant developer bottleneck. Conventional algorithm benchmarking and resource estimation typically require extensive multi-year efforts from domain experts spanning molecular modeling, software compilation, and hardware architecture evaluation. [...]

Superconducting hardware developer IQM Quantum Computers has introduced a quantum error correction (QEC) architecture termed directional tile codes. Co-authored with academic teams at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Edinburgh, and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the research outlines a framework to implement high-rate Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) codes on standard, two-dimensional planar processor layouts. By validating these error-correcting codes on a strictly planar grid, the approach reduces the physical physical-to-logical qubit overhead up to 1,000 times compared to traditional surface codes, bypassing the need for long-range couplers, three-dimensional vertical routing lines, or complex physical mechanical qubit shuttling mechanisms. Spacetime Routing Arrays and [...]

President Donald J. Trump has signed two Executive Orders aimed at cementing American leadership in the quantum era. Together with their accompanying Fact Sheets, the directives lay out a strategy designed to protect the nation from advanced cryptographic attacks while simultaneously encouraging commercial and scientific quantum innovation. Here is a breakdown of key provisions in the newly released directives. 1. Defensive Shield: Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration The first Executive Order 14412, "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," acknowledges the immediate threat of "harvest now, decrypt later" operations by foreign adversaries. It establishes a strict, legally mandated timeline for federal agencies to [...]

Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s view that the most promising near- to mid-term quantum applications are in quantum simulation for materials, chemicals, and pharma, rather than optimization. They also explore European competitiveness, venture opportunities across the quantum stack, cloud and on-prem deployment models, and the workforce and product skills needed to turn quantum ideas into successful companies. Transcript Yuval: Hello, Helmut, and thank you for joining me today. Helmut: Hi, Yuval. Nice talking to you again. Yuval: So who are you and what do you do? Helmut: My name is Helmut Katzgraber. [...]

Neutral-atom developer Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ) has launched America’s Quantum Space Initiative to accelerate the deployment of quantum technologies within the aerospace sector. The public-private coalition brings together a group of founding innovators, including Voyager Technologies, Monarch Quantum, Armada, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Operating through a collaborative network called the Quantum Space Hub, the consortium is designed to foster research and development partnerships across commercial industry, academia, and government agencies to translate early laboratory breakthroughs into ruggedized, mission-ready space assets. The initiative addresses an operational shift as space systems grow more dependent on precision timing, absolute navigation, secure communications, and [...]

© Fraunhofer IPMS QRNG competencies. The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has announced the development of Q-Dice, a high-performance Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) engineered to deliver true random numbers at data rates exceeding 4.1 Gbit/s. Moving beyond traditional, deterministic software algorithms that can introduce structural predictability vulnerabilities, the system isolates true mathematical entropy by executing precise physical measurements of quantum vacuum fluctuations—the spontaneous, unpredictable variations in electromagnetic energy that occur in empty space. The architecture provides an unbiased cryptographic foundation designed to future-proof communication networks against both classical and quantum computing threats. In-House Competencies and Technical Architecture To ensure [...]

Guest post by Zeynep Koruturk, Dr. Kris Naudts, & Donald Harmitt of Firgun Ventures and Professor Bob Coecke of Relational Intelligence Limited Few questions in the quantum sector are asked more often, or answered more loosely, than how many qubits a useful quantum computer will require. Press releases announce systems with hundreds of qubits, then thousands, and the implicit suggestion is that the field is approaching a finish line. The reality is more nuanced, and arguably more interesting. It is not as black and white as saying there is a single number of qubits that makes a quantum computer "useful". The [...]