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Software SDK / Quantum Hardware Compatibility Chart
One of the buzzwords you hear from many software developers is "hardware agnostic". Developers of Software Developer Platforms (SDKs)...
Sep 11, 20211 min read
Amazon Introduces Verbatim Compilation for Quantum Circuits
When a user submits a quantum program to run on a quantum computer, the software will typically run it through an optimizing compiler...
Sep 11, 20211 min read
Arqit Starts Trading on the NASDAQ
Arqit, a UK-based quantum encryption company, has started trading on the NASDAQ this week as part of their business combination with...
Sep 10, 20211 min read
University of Maryland and IonQ Partner to Create a National Quantum Lab (Q-Lab) with $20 Million...
The Q-Lab will be located in College Park, Maryland next to IonQ's headquarters and will be funded with $20 million from the university....
Sep 9, 20211 min read
IonQ Forecasts 2021 Contract Bookings to be $15 Million
IonQ stated that this amount triples their initial target for 2021 bookings which was originally $5 million. These bookings are expected...
Sep 9, 20211 min read
Quantum Machines Raises $50 Million in Series B Funding
This is the largest funding that has occurred so far for non-full stack companies (i.e. companies that don’t build a full quantum...
Sep 5, 20211 min read
New Software Releases: TensorFlow Quantum v2, Quantify-Core 0.5, and Cirq 1.0 Roadmap
TensorFlow Quantum is an open source library for quantum machine learning originally released by Google in 2020. It is a follow-on to the...
Sep 4, 20212 min read
E.On is Working with IBM to Find Quantum Solutions for Energy Grid Optimization
As we've seen recently with hurricane Ida in Louisiana, it is becoming increasingly important to optimize the performance and reliability...
Sep 4, 20211 min read
Quantum Strategic Industry Alliance for Revolution (Q-STAR) Formed in Japan
We reported in June that several companies in Japan were in the process of establishing a new council to encourage the development of...
Sep 3, 20211 min read
NSF Announces Two Additional Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes with Funding of $25 Million for Each
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is adding two additional Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes to join the three institutes...
Sep 3, 20212 min read
Who's News - Management Changes at ColdQuanta and D-Wave
ColdQuanta has announced Scott Faris as the new CEO and will also be restructuring the company into three division. Faris takes over from...
Sep 3, 20211 min read
sureCore is Developing Cryo-CMOS IP for Quantum Control Chips
One of the challenges to scaling up quantum computers is providing all the necessary control signals to the qubits so that they can...
Sep 2, 20212 min read
Does AMD Have a Serious Quantum Computing Effort Underway?
Attention has been drawn to two quantum related patents filed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) related to quantum technology. The first is...
Sep 1, 20212 min read
France and The Netherlands are Joining Forces for Development of Quantum Technology
As part of an overall declaration between the governments of France and The Netherlands to deepen and strengthen their bilateral...
Aug 31, 20211 min read
U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Releases FAQ Document Discouraging the Use of QKD
The NSA has released an FAQ document that answers questions related to quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography. In particular it...
Aug 31, 20211 min read
Research Roundup for August 2021
By Dr. Chris Mansell Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers in quantum computing and communications that have...
Aug 26, 20215 min read
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $61 Million for Quantum Research
The awards were made pursuant to three funding opportunity announcements released earlier this year. These include Quantum Information...
Aug 25, 20211 min read


IonQ Reveals a New Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA)
The Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) will allow IonQ to expand the number of qubits to hundreds per chip without any...
Aug 25, 20211 min read
Quantum Brilliance Receives $9.7 Million USD in Seed Funding
The funding round was led by Main Sequence Ventures and a consortium of former QxBranch founders. (QxBranch was sold to Rigetti Computing...
Aug 25, 20211 min read
Xanadu Partners with Imec for Fabrication of Xanadu's Photonic Quantum Chips
Xanadu, a full-stack quantum startup developing photonics-based quantum hardware, will use imec to build their chips. Imec...
Aug 17, 20211 min read
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