This section contains analysis, observations and opinions on the state of the quantum technology market. It will also contain links to posts written by others that we consider to be particularly relevant. Analysis articles that are greater than six months old are Premium articles and will require a membership to view.
January 11, 2025
Our Thoughts on Jensen Huang’s “Truly Useful in 15-30” Years Quantum Statements
January 8, 2025
Shaping the Future of Quantum Computing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
January 2, 2025
Quantum Applications in the Automotive Industry
December 20, 2024
Old QCR Articles Never Die, They Just Find a Way to the LLM
December 20, 2024
Results Released from the 2024 Unitary Fund’s Quantum Open Source Survey
December 20, 2024
Not New, Now Booming – On-Premise Quantum Computing
December 5, 2024
Considerations For Patenting Advances in Quantum Computing
November 12, 2024
The UK National Quantum Technology Showcase 10 Years On – A Review From a Global Perspective
November 10, 2024
Quantum Memory: A Tale of Three Patents – Part 2: The “Art”
November 9, 2024
Quantum Memory: A Tale of Three Patents – Part 1: Diversification
November 3, 2024
The Low-Hanging Fruit of Experience
October 28, 2024
The Canadian Quantum Ecosystem
October 19, 2024
Recipe for a Quantum Hype Omelet
October 15, 2024
NATO in the Quantum Industry Accelerator Business
October 14, 2024
Canada’s Quantum Leap: A Call to G7 Leadership
October 13, 2024
NATO’s Quantum-Safe Future Transition
October 8, 2024
Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics (QCFD)- Part 1: The Literature
October 5, 2024
Quantum Sensors: What’s Going on with Investments?
October 4, 2024
A New Phase for Quantum Competition in Europe
October 2, 2024
Quantum Sensors: Atom Interferometry. Part 3: Space is the Place
September 28, 2024
Quantum for AI: Weather Forecasting. Are we There Yet?
September 27, 2024
AI for Quantum / Quantum for AI: EU Foresight
September 22, 2024
Critical Electronics in the Quantum Technology Supply Chain
September 20, 2024
Helium-3 in the Quantum Technology Supply Chain
September 19, 2024
The European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI)
September 18, 2024
GQI’s Quantum Ecosystem Assessment: The PESTEL Perspective
September 17, 2024
German Ecosystem Part 2: Investments, Patents, and PESTEL
September 15, 2024
German Ecosystem Part 1: Quantum Processor Development
September 13, 2024
How Confident are the French and Germans in their Country’s Quantum Competitiveness?
September 12, 2024
European Patents – When Global Becomes Local
September 11, 2024
CQE Study: You Don’t Need a PhD to Work in Quantum
September 11, 2024
China’s Quantum Technology Strengths – More than Quantum Communication
September 10, 2024
Quantum Communication- Large Activity but Small Investments
September 7, 2024
Ingredients for a Quantum Killer App
September 4, 2024
Quantum Technology Cancer Use Cases
September 2, 2024
Quantum Technology Use Cases for Health
August 31, 2024
Australia’s Quantum Ecosystem Meets Export Control: Opportunities with Missteps – Part 2: Australia’s Quantum Ecosystem
August 29, 2024
Australia’s Quantum Ecosystem Meets Export Control: Opportunities with Missteps – Part 1: Export Control
August 28, 2024
How to Assess (Quantum) Uncertainty – GQI Guide for Investors
August 14, 2024
Latest Quantum Tech Investment Trends
August 7, 2024
Survey of Quantum Professionals by QuEra Shows They Believe the Technology is Making Faster Progress than Originally Expected
July 8, 2024
The GQI Trip Report to India
June 24, 2024
The GQI Trip Report to the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY
May 28, 2024
Shall you buy a Quantum Computer TODAY? – Analysis of QC On-premise Deployments
May 21, 2024
Shall We Regulate Quantum? – Insights from the 2nd Annual Stanford Responsible Quantum Technology Conference
May 6, 2024
Realizing Quantum Potential: Study of Quantum Computing Use Cases Developed Worldwide
April 10, 2024
Quantonation Announces First Closing of €200 Million ($214M USD) Quantum Tech Fund
March 19, 2024
Where are the Worldwide Quantum Networking Testbeds?
February 24, 2024
Quantum Poker: The States of Colorado and Illinois are Betting on Quantum
February 16, 2024
How Will Quantum Impact the Average Consumer? It Will be Less Overt and Much More Subtle
February 9, 2024
Infleqtion Unveils Quantum Roadmap for Quantum Sensing, Software and Computing Products
February 8, 2024
A Look at D-Wave’s Progress and Future Roadmap
December 13, 2023
U.S. National Quantum Initiative 2023 Year-end Report Issued by the National Science and Technology Council
December 11, 2023
The Indian Quantum Ecosystem: 2022-2023 – Executive Summary
November 30, 2023
Lessons from the Alibaba Quantum Shut Down
November 11, 2023
UK Quantum Showcase, Season Nine
November 4, 2023
U.S. House Science Committee Leaders Introduce a Renewal Bill for the Quantum Initiative Act
October 22, 2023
Quantum Synergy: Enabling Groundbreaking Research in National Labs with Quantum Computers
October 14, 2023
Recommended Reading: The U.S. Approach to Quantum Policy
September 22, 2023
Integrating Quantum Computing into HPC Centers: A Guide for Managers
August 24, 2023
How a Structural Engineer Would Think about Q-Day
August 2, 2023
What the Quantum Community Can Learn from J. Robert Oppenheimer
July 28, 2023
Insights from the Quantum Computing Report Reader Survey 2023
June 24, 2023
Overviews and Recommendations for the Quantum Ecosystems in Canada, Denmark, and Norway
June 10, 2023
AMETIC Review of the Quantum Industry in Spain
June 9, 2023
How the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act Might Change When It is Renewed
May 19, 2023
How Europe Can Become a Leader in Quantum Technology
May 6, 2023
Is Quantum Computing a Winner-takes-all Opportunity?
April 29, 2023
Subtle Pivots in the Quantum Software Industry
March 28, 2023
The Silent Quantum Winter
March 15, 2023
UK National Quantum Technologies Program Unveiled with £2.5 Billion ($3M USD) in Funding
March 11, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank Failure Impact on Quantum – Our Interim Poll Results
February 25, 2023
SandboxAQ After One Year
February 11, 2023
Frostbite Comes to Quantum; Layoffs at Rigetti, Reported Cash Crunch at D-Wave, and Headcount Freezes in Other Companies
February 1, 2023
Quantum Tech Government Programs (for QCR Paid subscribers)
January 29, 2023
When You Don’t Want to Use the Quantum Cloud
January 25, 2023
Washington State Seeking to Be the Next Quantum Technology Cluster
January 21, 2023
Could the Tech Industry Layoffs Be a Silver Lining in the Quantum Industry Cloud?
January 13, 2023
White Paper Published by the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing Examines the UK Quantum Ecosystem
January 11, 2023
Zapata Releases Its Second Annual Report on Enterprise Quantum Computing Adoption
December 17, 2022
Four Recent Market Surveys Point the Way for Continued Quantum Growth in 2023 and Beyond
November 25, 2022
Can Reskilling Help Satisfy Quantum’s Workforce Requirements?
October 22, 2022
What to Look Out For as the IT Community Starts Implementing PQC
October 5, 2022
Winning a Nobel from A to Z — What the Aspect-Clauser-Zeilinger Prize Tells us About Quantum Computation
October 1, 2022
High School Student’s Essay about His Quantum Journey
September 12, 2022
Should Customers Prefer Full-stack Quantum Computing Vendors?
September 1, 2022
Is Hiring Quantum PhDs the Answer?
August 22, 2022
Amid Challenges, the UK Government Continues to Fund Quantum Success
August 11, 2022
Secrets to Completing a SPAC Merger and What’s Next for D-Wave
August 9, 2022
U.S. CHIPS and Science Act: How Does It Impact Quantum?
August 5, 2022
Provisional Patent Applications: The Top Three Reasons Why Your Quantum Computing Tech Startup Should Consider Filing
July 10, 2022
Quantum Computing’s Time is Coming
July 4, 2022
China: The Quantum Technology Landscape – Part 3
June 29, 2022
How Should Quantum Computations Be Priced?
June 26, 2022
EY and UK’s NQCC Publish a Quantum Readiness Survey 2022
June 21, 2022
Are Quantum Tech Companies Immune from a Recession?
May 26, 2022
How Zapata and Andretti Motorsport Will Use Quantum Computing to Gain an Edge at the Indianapolis 500
May 8, 2022
Blast from the Past: First Ever Review of the IBM Quantum Experience in 2016
May 7, 2022
Weathering the First Quantum Short
April 16, 2022
How Much Money Has China Already Invested into Quantum Technology? – Part 2
April 9, 2022
How to Pump Up Those Quantum Market Forecasts
April 2, 2022
How is China Educating a Quantum Workforce? – Part 1
March 25, 2022
SandboxAQ’s Product Strategies
March 18, 2022
Notes from the APS (American Physical Society) March Meeting 2022
March 5, 2022
NIST Set to Announce Round 3 Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Selections Within the Next Few Weeks
February 13, 2022
Report on The Quantum Revolution in India
January 31, 2022
The Analyst Roundtable Launched to Provide Insight into What’s Going On in the Quantum Ecosystem
January 30, 2022
Successfully Navigating ‘Tech Sovereignty’ and National Security
January 26, 2022
Venture Capital Trends in Quantum Technologies
January 11, 2022
Business Combinations in the Quantum Industry
January 6, 2022
Zapata Computing Survey Finds High Interest in QC Adoption In the Enterprise
December 28, 2021
The Last Mile Might be the Toughest
December 11, 2021
Recommended Reading: A Guide to a Quantum-Safe Organization
November 19, 2021
Atos/IQM HPC Center Survey Shows Broad Interest in Quantum Computing
November 17, 2021
History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Often Rhymes
October 31, 2021
Quantum Advantage with NISQ Devices
October 29, 2021
Quantum Salaries in the U.S.
October 16, 2021
Two Surveys of Enterprise Users Show Interesting Results and High QC Awareness
October 1, 2021
Recommended Reading: McKinsey Quantum Technology Monitor
September 18, 2021
Concerned About Quantum Computing Ethics? Start by First Helping to Fix Classical Computing Ethics!
September 1, 2021
Does AMD Have a Serious Quantum Computing Effort Underway?
August 14, 2021
Things to Avoid in a Press Release for Your Quantum Organization
July 29, 2021
Quantum Recruiting — A View From the Front Lines
July 24, 2021
Recommended Reading: White Papers from IBM and BCG
July 3, 2021
Technology Pivots and Insurance Policies
June 22, 2021
Six Ways Quantum Computing Can Help Tackle Climate Change
June 19, 2021
Relative Popularity of Different Quantum Programming Platforms
June 9, 2021
A Deeper Dive into the Honeywell Quantum Solutions / Cambridge Quantum Computing Merger
June 4, 2021 – Guest Post
Quantum Innovation; The Bottoms Up Approach with OneQuantum
June 2, 2021
Quantum Software for Those Who Don’t Want to Learn Quantum
May 22, 2021 – Recommended Reading
Google’s Sycamore Quantum Computer Datasheet
May 15, 2021
Three Common Misconceptions About Quantum Technology
April 28, 2021- Recommended Article
Report on National Quantum Strategies Covers 46 Countries Plus the European Union
April 24, 2021
So You Want to Invest in a Quantum Company? Here are the Risks
April 3, 2021
How to Make Money with Quantum? Create Art with It!
February 27, 2021
A Quantum Advantage Demonstration Will Not Kick Off a Hockey Stick Adoption Rate
February 20, 2021
Japan: Land of the Rising Optimizers
February 11, 2021 – Recommended Article
Quantum Threat Timeline Report 2020
January 23, 2021
If You Think the Quantum Race is Only Between the U.S. and China, Think Again
January 16, 2021
Betamax versus VHS; QKD versus PQC
January 6, 2021
Will There Ever Be a Market for On-Premise Quantum Computing?
December 26, 2020
Quantum Outlook for 2021 – A Breakout Year
December 16, 2020 – Recommended Article
A Q2B Summary from Zapata
December 9, 2020
Update on the Gaussian Boson Sampling Quantum Computer Research in China
December 4, 2020
Chinese Research Group Claims Quantum Supremacy, Not Quantum Advantage
November 5, 2020
What is This Quantum-Inspired Stuff All About?
October 2, 2020
Silicon Quantum Computing: What Are They Up To in the Land Down Under?
September 18, 2020
Poll Results: Odds of Achieving Real World Quantum Advantage in the NISQ Era
September 17, 2020 – Recommended Report
Quantum Technologies Patents, Publications & Investments
September 10, 2020
A Tour Through the Quantum Ecosystem
August 25, 2020 – Contributed Article
Overview on Quantum Initiatives Worldwide
August 21, 2020 – Contributed Article
The Canadian Ecosystem that Supports Quantum Innovation
August 10, 2020 – Guest Editorial
Building a Global Community for Women in Quantum
July 11, 2020
Quantum Leadership Requires Attracting the Best Global Talent
July 9, 2020 – Guest Editorial
10 Communications Tips for Quantum Tech Startups in the Covid-19 Era
June 30, 2020 – Recommended Article
Answers to Quantum Computing Frequently Asked Questions from the World Economic Forum
June 20, 2020
Comments on Honeywell’s Announcement of the World’s Highest Performance Quantum Computer
May 30, 2020
Web Site Advice for Quantum Tech Companies
April 16, 2020
Podcast Explaining Quantum Computing to a Lay Person
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus and Quantum Computing
March 5, 2020
The Pitfalls of Overreliance on the Quantum Volume Metric
February 25, 2020
Quantum Computing Patent Analysis
February 13, 2020
Some Teams Go For NISQ-y Business. Some are NISQ-Averse
January 30, 2020 – Recommended Article
10 Tips for Quantum Tech Startups Seeking Funding
January 24, 2020
Moore’s Law for Qubits Revisited
January 24, 2020
Classical Computing Fights Back!
December 30, 2019
Quantum Computing Outlook for 2020
December 14, 2019
Observations from the 2019 Q2B Conference
December 13, 2019 – Recommended Article
How Many Years Until a Quantum Computer Can Break RSA-2048?
December 7, 2019
Why Quantum Startups are Hooking Up with Classical Computer Companies
November 7, 2019
Why NISQ-MP May Become an Important Use Case for the Quantum Internet
October 26, 2019
Our Take on Quantum Supremacy
October 4, 2019 – Recommended Article
Quantum Gold Rush: The Private Funding Pouring into Quantum Start-ups
October 3, 2019
How to Tell if Your Quantum Computer is Any Good. Lessons from the Sports Car Industry
September 24, 2019
After Quantum Supremacy: What Comes Next?
September 3, 2019
World Map of Quantum Activity
August 27, 2019
Report on NIST’s 2nd Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Conference
August 20, 2019
A Quantum Computing Use Case Roadmap from IBM
August 10, 2019
Will Lotteries Be the First Real World Application for Gate Level Quantum Computers?
July 30, 2019
What Will Be the Very First Real World Applications for Quantum Annealers?
July 19, 2019 – Recommended Article
Better Therapeutics with Near-Term Quantum Computers
July 15, 2019
The Quantum Industry Will Consolidate. But When?
June 22, 2019
Double Exponential Growth Can Be Easily Misinterpreted
May 30, 2019 – Recommended Video
D-Wave Webinar on Quantum Applications
May 29, 2019
No! Quantum Computing Will Not Change Everything
April 24, 2019
Can Researchers Exponentially Improve Quantity and Quality at the Same time?
April 18, 2019
You’ve Heard About the Traveling Salesman Problem. How About the Traveling Welding Robots?
April 16, 2019
Innovations in Classical Computing Architectures Make Quantum Advantage a Moving Target
April 13, 2019
Marketing Hint to QC Companies: Use HTTPS on Your Website
April 5, 2019 – Recommended Article
Quantum Value: A new hope
March 23, 2019
Is a Quantum Winter Coming?
March 16, 2019
The Popular Press Discovers Quantum Time Travel
March 8, 2019
Worldwide Map of Quantum Research Activity
February 2, 2019 – Recommended Article
Clarifying Quantum Supremacy: better terms for milestones in quantum computation
January 4, 2019
Review of the Cirq Quantum Software Framework
December 20, 2018
Notes on Q2B Conference, December 10-12, 2018
November 21, 2018
The Case Against Quantum Computing – A Rebuttal
November 16, 2018
An Exponential Increase in Quantum White Papers for Enterprise End Users
October 20, 2018
Comments on Two Recent Theoretical Quantum Computing Research Papers
September 13, 2018
Signs that the Hype is Overheating. Do We Really Need a Quantum ETF?
September 1, 2018
Quantum Computing is Already Providing Commercial Value – By Creating Competition
August 13, 2018 – Recommended Article
Two Short Term Revenue Opportunities for Quantum Encryption
July 19, 2018
Ammonia Based Fertilizer: The $11 Billion Problem Seeking a Solution
July 8, 2018
Comments on the 2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference
July 7, 2018
Job Growth in Quantum Computing
June 21, 2018
Overview and Comparison of Gate Level Quantum Software Platforms
June 18, 2018
Washington Takes Notice of Quantum Computing. But Can They Outsmart Justin Trudeau?
May 5, 2018
To Full Stack or Not To Full Stack; That is the Question
April 24, 2018
You Can Learn a Lot by Watching the Job Listings
March 25, 2018
Will Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock Emerge from a Quantum Teleporter?
February 3, 2018
Microsoft May Announce Their First Working Topological Qubit in the Very Near Future
January 24, 2018
What’s Happening with Post-Quantum Cryptography at NIST?
December 23, 2017
Lessons from the Semiconductor Industry – Germanium versus Silicon
December 14, 2017
How to Make Money in Quantum – Four Basic Business Models
December 7, 2017
Better Qubits versus More Efficient Error Correction
October 23, 2017
Why Computational Chemistry May Be Quantum’s First Killer App
October 20, 2017
Microsoft Quantum Development Toolkit – What is It?
October 9, 2017
When Does Classical Computing Beat Out Quantum Computing?
July 12, 2017
A Major Change of Attitude on Quantum Viability
June 20, 2017 – Recommended Article
Think Beyond Ones and Zeros
June 3, 2017
Will There Be Competition in Quantum Annealing Processors?
April 5, 2017
Will the United States Lead in Quantum Computing?
March 28, 2017
It Takes a Village to Build an Ecosystem
September 20, 2016 – Recommended Articles
CB Insights Articles on Quantum Computing Investments
September 17, 2016
A Brief Look at D-Wave’s Future Product Roadmap
September 12, 2016
Applying Moore’s Law to Quantum Qubits
July 10, 2016
The Best Applications for Quantum Computing
July 7, 2016
Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference 2016
June 30, 2016
What is Intel Up to With Quantum Technology?
June 18, 2016
What’s After Quantum Supremacy?
June 12, 2016
Comments on Digitized Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC)
May 28, 2016
Northern versus Southern California – Who’s More Quantum?
May 8, 2016
IBM Quantum Experience – First Looks
March 27, 2016
How To Explain Quantum to Your Classical Friends
March 15, 2016 – Recommended Article
Quantum Computing: Time for Venture Capitalists to put Chips on the Table?
March 13, 2016
Quantum and Cloud Computing – A Marriage Made in Heaven?
