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 […]

Qubic Secures Nearly CAD$1M to Develop Quantum Heat Dissipation Technology

SHERBROOKE, Canada (Sept 5, 2025) – Qubic, a quantum technology company, announces it has secured a $925,000 (CAD) grant from the government of Canada through its department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) and the FABrIC program, administered by the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC). This funding will support a $2.5 million project to develop […]

Oak Ridge Lab to Deploy Riverlane Quantum Error Correction

Cambridge, UK – 4th September 2025 — Quantum error correction company Riverlane today announced that it will deploy its QEC technology, Deltaflow 2, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The company said the installation, scheduled to complete by the end of September 2025, represents a major step in integrating quantum error correction with high-performance computing, accelerating […]

IQM Quantum Raises More Than $300M Series B

Espoo, Finland, 3rd September 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, a superconducting quantum company, announced that it has raised $320 Million (€275 Million) in venture capital, bringing the total funding raised to date to $600 Million. This Series B funding round was led by cybersecurity-focused investment firm Ten Eleven Ventures, IQM’s first U.S. investor, with an […]