The Luxembourg-based European Investment Fund recently announced an investment of €30 million in Quantonation II, a French early-stage venture capital fund. The funding aims at accelerating the growth of companies operating in the fields of quantum technology and deep physics, and is intended to address a gap in the early-stage financing landscape. The fund aims […]
Inauguration of PIAST-Q European Quantum Computing in Poland
June 26, 2025 by
The EuroHPC JU has inaugurated PIAST-Q in Poznań, Poland. PIAST-Q is a laser-based trapped-ion quantum computer, hosted and operated by PCSS and supplied by AQT, in Innsbruck, Austria. PIAST-Q will offer a performance of 20 physical qubits along with several features for European users. This is the first EuroHPC infrastructure located in Poland. The inauguration ceremony […]
HPC News Bytes 20250623: Fault Tolerant Quantum by 2029?, Quantum Roadmaps, Metrics and M&A, RIKEN and Fujitsu Team on FugakuNEXT
June 23, 2025 by
A good late June morning to you! A healthy portion of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI has focused on quantum computing, here’s a quick (7:09) run-through, including ….
IonQ and Kipu Quantum Report Protein Folding and Optimization Problem Records
June 19, 2025 by
Kipu Quantum and IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced what they said is a record achievement: the successful solution of “the most complex known protein folding problem” using Kipu’s algorithmic framework and IonQ quantum ….
Quantum: IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics for Record $1B
June 12, 2025 by
June 12, 2025: IonQ earlier this week it has agreed to acquire Oxford Ionics for US$1.075 billion, the largest deal in the quantum computing industry to date, according to IonQ. The transaction will consist mostly of US$1.065 billion in IonQ shares (representing around 10 percent of IonQ’s market cap of ~US$10 billion at the time […]
IBM Says on Course to Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2029
June 11, 2025 by
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., June 10, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled what the company said is its path to build the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, “setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing.” Scheduled for delivery by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New […]
Room Temp Quantum Brilliance System Installed at Fraunhofer IAF
June 5, 2025 by
Freiburg, Germany – 5 June 2025 – The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF announced a system from Quantum Brilliance (QB) is operational at the institute. The Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) is integrated into the high-performance computing infrastructure at Fraunhofer IAF, the institute said. The system requires no cryogenics, fits into a standard […]
E4 Computer Engineering’s Portfolio of HPC, AI and Quantum at ISC 2025
May 29, 2025 by
Scandiano, May 28, 2025: E4 Computer Engineering will be among the protagonists at ISC High Performance, Europe’s benchmark event for supercomputing, held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from June 10 to 13. With a program of presentations at its booth (Hall H – Booth F40), the Italian company intends to promote discussion on the […]
QuEra Installs Quantum System in Japan
May 28, 2025 by
Tsukuba, Japan – May 28, 2025 – QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced it has installed its first quantum computer outside of its own labs – at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba. QuEra said the gate-based neutral-atom computer is a key step in Japan’s national quantum […]
D-Wave Shares Soar on News of Quantum System GA
May 20, 2025 by
In the volatile realm of quantum computing, D-Wave is on a volatile, upward-pointing run of its own, one that points up the high hopes for the potential of quantum computing. As recently as six months ago, the quantum startup’s share price remained ….
