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Google held its Quantum Summer Symposium last week and described a number of new developments that shows they are continuing to progress in their quantum developments. They first announced of a free program called the Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) that runs in a Colab notebook. Although Google has not made any of their quantum processors openly available to the public yet, the QVM allows anyone to emulate one of Google's processors to test out their programs and see how they would run run on one of their quantum machines. Although there are many other quantum simulators out there, the key differentiator [...]

Nvidia continues to expand their offerings to the quantum community. Last year, they introduced their cuQuantum SDK for implementing high performance simulation of quantum programs using their Nvidia GPU's. They have now announced a new platform called QODA (Quantum-Optimized Device Architecture) that also enables the development and compilation of quantum-classical programs for hybrid environments that include classical CPU's, GPUs, and quantum QPU's connected together. The basic programming interface is currently C++ with Python planned to be added in the future. And the compiler, which they call NVQ++, will utilize the QIR (Quantum Intermediate Representation) which will make it easier to add [...]

The QSOLID program will last for four years and will be led by Forschungszentrum Jülich. The goal will be to develop a superconducting processor with very high quality qubits and integrate it into Forschungszentrum Jülich’s supercomputing infrastructure. The project plans to create and operate at least three different quantum chips in parallel: a “moonshot” system with computing power exceeding that of conventional supercomputers, an application-specific system designed to perform quantum calculations for industry, and a benchmarking platform that prioritizes the development of digital twins and industry standards. The consortium working on this project includes 25 organizations including Forschungszentrum Jülich, Qruise, Fraunhofer, [...]

By Carolyn Mathas Germany aims to become a leader in quantum technologies and is rapidly rolling out its roadmap. A newly launched Quantum-enabling Services and Tools for Industrial Applications (QuaST) Consortium will enable rapid quantum adoption without requiring relevant prior knowledge or major investment. QuaST will supply end-users with high-level libraries that automatically decompose a solution into parts requiring classical, high-performance or quantum computing, according to the problem submitted. The parts requiring quantum computing are then optimized and mapped onto the hardware, including a co-design process. Potential applications include logistic optimization, scheduling in production management, health care and drug development and [...]

Zapata Computing has released a new survey of 300 executives at large global enterprises with estimated 2021 revenues of over USD $250 million and estimated computing budgets over $1M to ascertain their interest and plans for adopting quantum computing within their enterprise. The survey contains a large amount of data on this topic. Here are some of the highlights that we saw: 74% agree that adopting QC is a necessity for not getting left behind; 69% have adopted or are planning to adopt QC; 29% have already adopted QC, 28% already have QC budgets of at least $1 Million.A significant percentage [...]

By David Shaw, Fact Based InsightThis article has been republished with permission. The original can be found on the Fact Based Insight web site here. Big ticket investments have created a growing number of quantum unicorns. Chinese strides with photonic and superconducting qubits have grabbed attention. Trapped ions have shone with demonstrations of logical qubits. But who is winning the race to build a practical quantum computer? Where should we start in assessing the most important quantum hardware developments? The challenges and opportunities faced by different qubit platforms vary markedly. Increasingly we have to understand the goals being prioritised by each company and [...]