Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage for ‘Willow’ Chip

Google has issued a blog in which the company claims that its “Willow” quantum chip has achieved the first-ever demonstration of verifiable quantum advantage. “This milestone is a critical step ….

Swiss Quantum Technology in €10M Deal to Deploy D-Wave Quantum

PALO ALTO, Calif. & COMO, Italy – October 15, 2025 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced an agreement with Swiss Quantum Technology SA (“SQT”) to deploy a D-Wave Advantage2 annealing quantum computer […]

D-Wave Joins Italy’s ‘Q-Alliance’ Quantum Hub

PALO ALTO, Calif. & COMO – October 14, 2025 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced is is a founder of Q-Alliance, defined in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Como today as “The Birth of the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Hub.” The initiative provides the Lombardy region of northern Italy with an infrastructure that leverages D-Wave […]

Quantum: kiutra Raises €13M for Helium-3-Free Cooling

Munich — kiutra, provider of magnetic cooling for quantum technologies, today announced the successful closing of a €13 million equity round to accelerate global scale-up and deliver helium-3-free cooling systems that strengthen quantum supply chain resilience. The round was co-led by new international investors NovaCapital and 55 North, alongside strong participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds and […]

HPC News Bytes 20251006: Quantum (Information) Supremacy at UT Austin, Big Cloud Balances BYO vs Merchant AI Chips, Surprise Players in AI Infrastructure Market

Good October day to you! HPC-AI, the industry that never sleeps, has served up its usual stew of ….

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 […]

Quantum: Scientists Say They Have Sidestepped Uncertainty Principle

Sept. 24, 2025 — Physicists in Australia and Britain report they have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle – a result that could underpin future ultra-precise sensor technology used in navigation, medicine and astronomy. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, introduced in 1927, says that certain pairs of properties – […]

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 ….