Universal Quantum unveils iQPU, a foundry-made trapped-ion chip with built-in control
Universal Quantum's iQPU combines a 400 mm² trapped-ion surface, integrated control ASICs and UQConnect links, made on a 200 mm line. DLR gets it first.
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SpecterAI and HPT turn Vietnam PQC partnership into training and migration roadmap
SpecterAI Quantum Security and HPT Vietnam signed an action plan for PQC training, a five-phase migration service and compliance assessments for Vietnam.
Quint Computing raises €9.1 million to suppress qubit errors in the chip itself
Erlangen start-up Quint Computing closed a €9.1 million first round led by Vsquared, plus a €2.2 million EIC Pathfinder grant, for its error-suppressing chip design.
UK pension savings head to Oxford Quantum Circuits and Quantum Motion via Scottish Widows
A Scottish Widows long-term asset fund, with a portfolio run by IP Group for Aberdeen, expects its first UK venture bets to include OQC and Quantum Motion.
South Korea switches on Hangang supercomputer and plans a quantum link in 2027
KISTI's sixth national supercomputer, Hangang, launched with 8,496 GPUs; the government aims to connect it to a quantum computer around the first half of 2027.
Hong Kong regulator and HKUST give banks a toolkit for the post-quantum switch
The HKMA and HKUST released a PQC Toolkit with a 23-workstream manual and four planning tools, aiming to lift banks' quantum readiness score from 2.3 to 10 by 2030.
Chattanooga's CO.LAB Q names four quantum startups for its first commercialization cohort
Ridge Quantum, Superquantum, Esoteriq and Kottackal join CO.LAB Q, a 12-month Chattanooga studio pairing quantum startups with EPB, Quantinuum, ORNL and customers.
Sandia and Quantinuum fully characterize a logical qubit's gate set with 'logical GST'
A Sandia–Quantinuum preprint extends gate set tomography to error-corrected operations, mapping the noise left on a Steane-code logical qubit on Quantinuum H1.
Infleqtion runs its Tiqker optical atomic clock at sea for two weeks in a US Navy exercise
Infleqtion operated Tiqker aboard the Navy support vessel RV Merlin during Maritime Big Play Pacific and BARB-26, testing GPS-independent timing at sea.
Foxconn chairman says the company wants to be the largest quantum computer manufacturer
Young Liu told CNBC that Foxconn aims to build quantum computers for other companies' brands, and expects at least two more years before the field is commercially viable.
E.ON, Qoro and NQCC split a 1,710-qubit grid problem across IBM Heron processors
A preprint from E.ON, Qoro Quantum and the NQCC partitions a 1,710-variable grid optimization into small QAOA jobs and packs them onto IBM Heron chips.
BTQ and QPerfect publish a gate-level design for quantum one-shot signatures
BTQ Technologies and its subsidiary QPerfect give explicit qubit and gate counts for a signing key that can only ever sign one message, before obfuscation.
Wolfspeed brings transparent silicon carbide to market, naming quantum computing as a target
Wolfspeed has commercially introduced TSiC optical-grade silicon carbide substrates, pitching them for AR waveguides and for qubit hosts and photonics in quantum.
pQCee signs Carahsoft as master aggregator to sell post-quantum security to US agencies
pQCee will reach US federal, state, local, education and healthcare buyers through Carahsoft, its resellers and the TIPS and OMNIA Partners contracts.
Lumen funds Ohio State quantum networking research and schedules PQC for its SASE service
Lumen is backing Ohio State research on quantum links over deployed fiber and plans Fortinet post-quantum cryptography in its SASE service from November 2026.
IQM entangles all 54 qubits of its cloud-accessible Emerald processor
IQM says its Emerald system prepared a GHZ state across all 54 qubits with 0.516 fidelity, above the 0.5 entanglement threshold, and opened that performance to cloud users.
IDEMIA Secure Transactions wins first EMVCo certification for a post-quantum card platform
IDEMIA Secure Transactions says its Java Card platform, with a PQC hardware accelerator and ML-KEM/ML-DSA library, is the first EMVCo-certified one of its kind.
QPerfect's MIMIQ emulator goes live on qBraid's managed API
BTQ Technologies' subsidiary QPerfect has made its MIMIQ state-vector and MPS emulator available to qBraid's 35,000-plus developers, free to run for now.
Alice & Bob puts RSA-2048 within reach of about 23,000 cat qubits in a new estimate
A new Alice & Bob preprint compiles Shor's algorithm onto cat qubits and estimates RSA-2048 could fall to 22,593 physical qubits running for 3.14 days.
UCL and NQCC researchers measure one logical qubit inside a QLDPC block on Quantinuum H2
A preprint reports QLDPC surgery on Quantinuum's H2-2 trapped-ion processor, reading one of two encoded qubits in a code block while leaving the other intact.
PsiQuantum shows 8×8 optical switch aimed at AI data-center links
PsiQuantum has unveiled an 8×8 optical circuit switch demo built on its silicon photonics platform, with lab-tested loss, crosstalk and reconfiguration figures.
Pasqal releases AI agent workflow that turns research ideas into neutral-atom QPU runs
Pasqal's new agent skills plug into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to move from a paper or idea to emulated and executed jobs on Pasqal Cloud QPUs.
NVision reports single-molecule qubit with a photonic interface in Nature, teams with HyperLight
NVision's Nature paper shows a single carbene molecule acting as an addressable spin–photon interface; the company will integrate the qubits on HyperLight TFLN chips.
IonQ gets $7.5M AFRL phase 2 award to expand Rome quantum network
IonQ has received $7.5 million in Phase 2 funding from AFRL to add free-space links, frequency conversion and control software to its Rome network.
D-Wave and LG CNS sign MOU on quantum optimization in South Korea
D-Wave and LG CNS have signed a non-binding MOU to develop enterprise quantum optimization applications in South Korea and abroad.
BlueQubit claims random-circuit sampling advantage on IBM's cloud Nighthawk r2 chip
A BlueQubit preprint reports 61-qubit random-circuit sampling on IBM's ibm_phoenix in 19 seconds, estimating about 110 years on the Frontier supercomputer.
Stuttgart runs entanglement-based QKD from a quantum dot over a deployed campus fiber
A Stuttgart-led team generated 14.2 Mbit of secure key over a 1.59 km campus fiber using entangled photons from a quantum dot, converted to the telecom band.
QuantrolOx closes €12m Series A2 to expand automation and quantum training
Oxford spinout QuantrolOx has raised €12 million in Series A2 funding to grow its hardware automation, training and U.S. operations.
Quantinuum, GE Vernova team up on quantum models of superconductivity
Quantinuum and GE Vernova will study high-temperature superconductivity using Helios and Fermi-Hubbard modeling to probe industrial energy uses.
Pasqal's 256-qubit processor finds a quantum-magnet slowdown theory did not predict
A Pasqal-led preprint reports an unexpected relaxation slowdown in a 2D quantum magnet on 256 neutral atoms, where three classical tensor-network methods lose control.
NQCP spins out Pelagic Systems to sell millisecond-scale qubit calibration software
Pelagic Systems, a new spinout from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme, moves qubit calibration onto FPGA controllers to run in milliseconds.
NIST sets PQC migration roadmap with 2030, 2031 and 2035 federal targets
NIST has issued final guidance for moving from quantum-vulnerable cryptography to PQC, with phased federal deadlines and supply-chain planning advice.
IBM bundles its post-quantum migration tools into a single 'IBM Quantum Safe' suite
IBM Quantum Safe combines Cryptography Manager, Explorer and Proxy to help enterprises find vulnerable cryptography, plan PQC migration and protect traffic now.
IBM links two 120-qubit chips with four superconducting quantum cables
IBM researchers report a four-channel link between two 120-qubit processors, with 99% average state-transfer fidelity in an arXiv preprint.
Los Alamos and QC Ware use sample-based diagonalization on IBM hardware to model iron oxides
A LANL–QC Ware preprint recovers the ground states of FeO and Fe2O2 models with sample-based quantum diagonalization on IBM's ibm_miami, where plain VQE fell short.
Jülich team runs 6.8-nanosecond transmon gates above 99.98% fidelity
Researchers from Jülich, Aachen and Cologne report ultrafast single-qubit gates in Nature Communications, using a pulse method that suppresses multiphoton leakage.
Intel strikes deal to buy Classiq for full-stack quantum push
Intel has agreed to acquire Classiq, combining spin-qubit hardware and software with Classiq’s quantum synthesis platform. Closing is expected in 1H 2027.
Adelaide engineers use junction-free loops to turn SQUID arrays into absolute magnetometers
A Physical Review Applied paper shows bare superconducting loops can mimic the varied loop sizes SQIF sensors need, aiming to keep sensitivity and simplify manufacturing.
IQM and Telefónica target first Madrid-region quantum computer at UPM
Telefónica and IQM plan to install an IQM Spark system at the Technical University of Madrid by the end of 2026.
Google opens $150,000 Kaggle contest on AI-driven quantum circuit compression
Google Quantum AI has launched a $150,000 Kaggle competition to cut qubit and gate counts in key quantum circuits for fusion, optimization and chemistry.
Cloudflare adds post-quantum Geo Key Manager for regional key control
Cloudflare has launched a closed beta of a post-quantum Geo Key Manager using hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 for regional key access control.
Sparrow Quantum names founder Peter Lodahl CEO in planned transition
Sparrow Quantum has appointed founder Peter Lodahl as CEO, as the Danish photonics company shifts toward system integration for fault-tolerant architectures.
SEEQC reports QEC decoding gains from chip pre-decoder and NVIDIA Ising
SEEQC says simulations show its chip-based pre-decoder, paired with NVIDIA Ising and NVQLink, cut QEC decoding latency and logical errors by about 50%.
Quantinuum, Oracle open Helios access through OCI beta program
Quantinuum and Oracle have launched an OCI beta program giving selected users cloud access to Helios for hybrid quantum-AI workflows.
IBM pushes Qiskit further beyond Python with SDK v2.6 release
IBM’s Qiskit SDK v2.6 adds a C API pass manager, native QPY serialization and custom operations as IBM advances Python-optional workflows.
Qblox links NVIDIA DGX Spark to quantum control with sub-7.2 µs latency
Qblox says it has integrated NVIDIA DGX Spark with its quantum controller via NVQLink, targeting real-time calibration and error correction.
NVIDIA buys minority stake in Riverlane, expands GPU-QEC work
NVIDIA has taken a minority stake in Riverlane and expanded work on GPU-accelerated quantum error-correction calibration using H100 GPUs.
Toshiba launches platform for scalable quantum-safe networking
Toshiba has introduced a Quantum-Safe Networking Platform that combines PQC, QKD and QRNG with centralized control for existing fiber networks.
Rutgers and IBM report real-time feedback control across 100 qubits
Researchers from Rutgers, IBM and collaborators used a 156-qubit Heron chip to demonstrate repeated measurement and reset across up to 100 qubits.
Quandela, Quanova move to install Vietnam’s first quantum computer
Quandela and Quanova plan to deploy a MosaiQ photonic quantum computer at Quang Trung University as part of a broader training and innovation program.
qBraid launches OS layer for operating quantum computing services
qBraid has introduced qBraid OS, software for running quantum computing services with scheduling, billing and NVIDIA CUDA-Q support.
Plurilock sets Nov. 18 vote on Quantum eMotion acquisition plan
Plurilock shareholders will vote Nov. 18 on Quantum eMotion’s proposed acquisition, a stock-and-cash deal still subject to court and other approvals.