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University of Delaware Studying Tunable Qubits

This past September, the U.S. National Science Foundation awarded substantial sums to a number of universities.  The funding is to go toward advancing quantum information science.  One university, the University of Delaware, received funds to that end. 

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Made in China 2025

“Made in China 2025” is China’s initiative to rein as world leader in technology — from telecommunications to artificial intelligence coupled with robots to quantum computing. A key accomplishment has been the over $10B put into their civilian-military quantum computing complex; this is aside from corporate mega-giants Huawei and Alibaba’s ‘commercial’ efforts.

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Big Blue Down Under Awarded A$1 Billion

International Business Machines (IBM), also known as “Big Blue”, has been awarded nearly $750 million U.S. dollars by the Australian government. Quantum computing is ear-marked in the spending. Australia anticipates bringing artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain into the government’s fold. The quest is to be one of the top digital governments within the next ten years. This deal serves to reduce cost while speeding up the arrival of the Australian government’s digital transformation.

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Sweden Joins the Quantum Race

In ten years’ time, Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology (Wallenberg Center for Quantum Technology) anticipates having constructed a 100 qubit quantum computer.

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