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BMW Sets Out a Quantum Computing Challenge in Collaboration with AWS
Sometimes a real world challenge can help quantum application developers advance their skills and technologies in ways that might not be...
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Riverlane, Rigetti, and Astex Pharmaceuticals Partner to Explore Drug Discovery Applications
The three companies have been provided a grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to research possible applications of quantum...
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Better Chemistry with Google’s Sycamore and the Gamble of NISQ Applications
By Andre Saraiva, UNSW Designing and analysing molecules and materials was the first application envisioned for quantum computers back in...
Jul 12, 20213 min read
Microsoft Announces Credits, Python SDK Support, and New Development Capabilities for Azure Quantum
In a new blog post, Microsoft has announced several new features and other incentives for users of its Azure Quantum cloud platform. This...
Jul 10, 20212 min read
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Creates a 256 Qubit Quantum Simulator
A quantum simulator is not quite the same thing as a gate-based or annealing-based quantum computer, but it still may provide valuable in...
Jul 10, 20212 min read


Strangeworks Providing Early Preview Access to IBM's Qiskit Runtime
Diagram that Shows How Qiskit Runtime Can Reduce Program Runtimes by Minimizing Queue Delays, Credit: IBM IBM's Qiskit Runtime is a...
Jul 9, 20211 min read
How Many Qubits Do You Need? Amazon’s Shortcut to Error Correction
By Andre Saraiva, UNSW Ambitious quantum algorithms require many qubits. Many more than quantum computer manufacturers are offering...
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Oxford Quantum Circuits To Set Up the First Quantum Cloud Service in the UK
Oxford Quantum Circuits is setting up the first Quantum Computing-as-a-Service (QCaaS) in the United Kingdom. They will create a private...
Jul 8, 20211 min read
Three Australian Universities Receive $6 Million AUS ($4.49M USD) to Research Error Tolerant Quan...
The funds are being provided by the Australia Department of Defence’s Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) which will provide $2...
Jul 7, 20211 min read


ColdQuanta Announces a 100 Qubit Processor with Customer Availability Later this Year
The processor, codenamed "Hilbert" will be based upon ColdQuanta's cold atom technology. This technology utilizes Cesium atoms arranged...
Jul 7, 20213 min read


Australian Government Awards Q-CTRL $4.5 Million AUS ($3.37M USD) for Development of Quantum Sens...
The Australian Minister for Industry, Science and Technology will fund Q-CTRL with $4.5 million AUS over a 2.5 year period to expand the...
Jul 6, 20211 min read


Rohde & Schwarz Acquires Zurich Instruments
Rohde & Schwarz is an electronics company headquartered in Munich, Germany with products for the electronic test equipment, broadcast &...
Jul 6, 20211 min read


Technology Pivots and Insurance Policies
An interesting analogy for what we think may happen in the quantum computing industry can be found in the graph below that shows how the...
Jul 3, 20213 min read


IQM Sets Up a Subsidiary in Spain as a Quantum Finance Co-Design Hub
IQM Processor Example IQM has a different commercialization strategy than most of the other quantum hardware companies. They are focusing...
Jul 2, 20212 min read
Another Regional Quantum Coalition Being Formed in Indiana
A new Center for Quantum Technologies is being established in Indiana with Purdue University as the lead institution and additional...
Jul 1, 20211 min read
Chinese Group Claims to Have Replicated and Surpassed Google's Quantum Supremacy Experiment
In a new article posted on arXiv, a Chinese group from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), QuantumCTek, and the...
Jun 30, 20211 min read
University of Nevada, Reno Receives $2.493 Million DOE Grant for QC Research
The grant provided to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is for research into building stable controllable spin systems for quantum...
Jun 29, 20211 min read


Rigetti Previews 80 Qubit Multi-Chip Quantum Processor
Rigetti Multi-chip Quantum Processor Rigetti has announced that it has developed multi-chip architecture for scaling its quantum...
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Bose Quantum Receives 10's of Millions of Yuan (>$3M USD) in Seed Financing
Beijing based Bose Quantum (「玻色量子」) has received the investment to develop a Coherent Ising Machine (CIM) based quantum computer using...
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Research Roundup for June 2021
By Dr. Chris Mansell Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers in quantum computing and communications that have...
Jun 26, 20215 min read
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