Quantum: ‘Optical Tweezers’ Help Caltech Researchers Claim Qubit Record

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.

HSBC Reports on Quantum-Enabled Algorithmic Trading with IBM

25 September 2025 — British bank and financial services company HSBC announced what it said is the world’s first-known empirical evidence of the potential value of current quantum computers for algorithmic bond trading. Working with a team from IBM, HSBC leveraged an approach that utilized quantum and classical computing resources to deliver up to a […]

QuEra and Collaborators Announce Quantum Framework for Algorithmic Fault Tolerance

BOSTON — September 24, 2025 — QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced that Nature has published “Low-Overhead Transversal Fault Tolerance for Universal Quantum Computation,” a paper prepared in collaboration with Harvard and Yale. The research introduces Algorithmic Fault Tolerance (AFT), a new framework that reduces the time overhead of error correction in quantum […]

HPC News Bytes 20250922: NVIDIA’s Intel Stake and APUs to Come, NVIDIA’s $900M Enfabrica ‘Acqui-Hire,’ Quantum Investment Goes Exponential

Happy vernal equinox to you! Developments in the world of HPC-AI last week exceeded its high standard for news value ….

Univ. of Maryland to Host Microsoft Quantum Research Center

COLLEGE PARK, MD, Sept. 17, 2026 — The University of Maryland (UMD) will soon be home to a major new Microsoft quantum research lab, further strengthening the university’s position as a global leader in quantum science, innovation and commercialization. Gov. Wes Moore announced the project while addressing hundreds gathered for the Quantum World Congress (QWC), a global event […]

Oxford Quantum Circuits, Digital Realty and NVIDIA to Launch Quantum-AI Data Center in New York

New York – 16 September 2025 – Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), and Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) announced the launch of the first quantum-AI data center in New York City, located at Digital Realty’s JFK10 facility and built with NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips. The data center brings together OQC’s quantum computing, NVIDIA-accelerated AI hardware, and […]

Quantum Motion Delivers Silicon CMOS Quantum Computer

15 September 2025, London – Quantum Motion has delivered what the company said is the first full-stack quantum computer to be built using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process – the same transistor technology used in conventional computers. Deployed at the UK National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), this is the first full-stack quantum computer to use mass manufacturable […]

PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion

The PsiQuantum funds will support plans to break ground on utility-scale quantum sites in Brisbane and Chicago, deploy prototype systems to validate systems architecture and integration, and advance the performance ….

Hyperion Research and Alice & Bob Report on Preparing HPC Centers for Quantum 

St. Paul, Minnesota and Paris – September 9, 2025 – Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob and HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, today released a joint report detailing how early fault-tolerant quantum computing (eFTQC1) will, within the next five years, enable solutions to critical scientific applications that are beyond classical supercomputing capabilities. The […]

Quantum: QuEra Expands $230M Financing Round

BOSTON — September 9, 2025– QuEra Computing, developer of advanced neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced an investment from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) that expands its $230 million Series B round first announced in February. The funding from NVentures follows Google’s participation in QuEra’s successful financing announced in February 2025 and also complements Quera’s collaborations with […]