Photon-Counting Camera Seen as Enabler to Quantum Computing
Photon-Counting Camera Seen as Enabler to Quantum Computing New camera can detect single photons of light at record speeds Key points… + The world’s first megapixel photon-counting camera and a first-of-its-kind image sensor technology are capable of detecting single photons of light at record speeds. “In a somewhat more distant future, quantum communication, sensing and […]
Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems
Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems Intel Corporation has invented a spin qubit fabrication flow on its 300 mm process technology using isotopically pure wafers like this one. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation) What’s New: Intel, in collaboration with QuTech, today published […]
Putting Millions of Dollars Into Qubits. Will PsiQuantum Launch Into Orbit or Flame Out On the Way?
Putting Millions of Dollars Into Qubits. Will PsiQuantum Launch Into Orbit or Flame Out On the Way? Well-done analysis from Moor Insights & Strategy via Forbes. Broad discussion at the layperson’s level of the types of qubits as they apply to PsiQuantum’s claims for a million qubit quantum computer within a decade or so. Recommend […]
Startup Touting Fully Digital Quantum Computing Brings in Another $5M
Startup Touting Fully Digital Quantum Computing Brings in Another $5M Seeqc Gains Over $11 Million in Funding to Introduce Fully Digital Quantum Computing ELMSFORD, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Seeqc, the Digital Quantum Computing™ company, today [April 9, 2020] announced funding of $5 Million from M Ventures, the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to […]
Rigetti, Quantum Machines, QuSecure Received Roughly $88M in March
Rigetti, Quantum Machines, QuSecure Received Roughly $88M in March Startup Funding: March 2020 Key points… + Rigetti Computing raised $71M in a Series D funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by Morpheus Ventures. The Berkeley, CA, company designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits for integration into existing cloud infrastructure. It also develops […]
Trapped Ion Computing is Honeywell’s Gamble
Trapped Ion Computing is Honeywell’s Gamble Comprehensive discussion of Honeywell’s trapped ion ambitions from author John Russell at HPC wire. Recommend reading from the source, below. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. Honeywell’s Big Bet on Trapped Ion Quantum Computing + Honeywell doesn’t spring to mind when thinking of quantum computing pioneers, but a decade ago […]
Quantum Startup Pulling in Big $ to be First to a Silicon Photonic Quantum Computer
Quantum Startup Pulling in Big $ to be First to a Silicon Photonic Quantum Computer Quantum Computing Startup Raises $215 Million for Faster Device Excerpts and salient points ~ + PsiQuantum, a 5-year-old startup based in Palo Alto, Calif., says it’s well on its way to creating a commercial quantum machine, the boldest claim to […]
Seemingly Any Computer Could Predict Elections Better Than in 2016. Here’s How Quantum Computers Might Help…
Seemingly Any Computer Could Predict Elections Better Than in 2016. Here’s How Quantum Computers Might Help… How quantum computing will be used to model elections Excerpts and salient points ~ + We had, in the 2016 model, for instance–regardless of what other errors might’ve come in during sampling on that–we had models that would predict […]
AVaQus to Build Quantum Annealer With Tunable, High-Connectivity, Long Coherence Time Qubits
AVaQus to Build Quantum Annealer With Tunable, High-Connectivity, Long Coherence Time Qubits IFAE coordinates the project AVaQus to develop new quantum computing technologies Full press release… The AVaQus project, coordinated by the newly created Quantum Computing Technologies group at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), at the UAB, is one of the 49 projects […]
You Can Tune a Piano, But Can You Tune a Qubit? NIST Scientists Believe So
You Can Tune a Piano, But Can You Tune a Qubit? NIST Scientists Believe So To Tune Up Your Quantum Computer, Better Call an AI Mechanic Credit: B. Hayes/NIST This artist’s conception shows how the research team used artificial intelligence (AI) and other computational techniques to tune a quantum dot device for use as a […]