DesignQuantum (English)https://designquantum.com/Independent quantum computing news, explainers and a sourced directory of quantum companies and investors, updated continuously.enTue, 03 Nov 2026 11:43:10 GMT Universal Quantum unveils iQPU, a foundry-made trapped-ion chip with built-in controlhttps://designquantum.com/news/universal-quantum-iqpu/https://designquantum.com/news/universal-quantum-iqpu/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTHardwareUniversal 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. SpecterAI and HPT turn Vietnam PQC partnership into training and migration roadmaphttps://designquantum.com/news/specterai-hpt-pqc-vietnam/https://designquantum.com/news/specterai-hpt-pqc-vietnam/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCSpecterAI 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 itselfhttps://designquantum.com/news/quint-computing-9-1m-first-round/https://designquantum.com/news/quint-computing-9-1m-first-round/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingErlangen 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 Widowshttps://designquantum.com/news/scottish-widows-oqc-quantum-motion/https://designquantum.com/news/scottish-widows-oqc-quantum-motion/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingA 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 2027https://designquantum.com/news/korea-hangang-supercomputer-quantum/https://designquantum.com/news/korea-hangang-supercomputer-quantum/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTPolicyKISTI'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 switchhttps://designquantum.com/news/hkma-hkust-pqc-toolkit/https://designquantum.com/news/hkma-hkust-pqc-toolkit/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCThe 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 cohorthttps://designquantum.com/news/chattanooga-colab-q-cohort/https://designquantum.com/news/chattanooga-colab-q-cohort/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingRidge 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'https://designquantum.com/news/sandia-quantinuum-logical-gst/https://designquantum.com/news/sandia-quantinuum-logical-gst/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTError correctionA 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 exercisehttps://designquantum.com/news/infleqtion-navy-optical-clock/https://designquantum.com/news/infleqtion-navy-optical-clock/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSensingInfleqtion 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 manufacturerhttps://designquantum.com/news/foxconn-quantum-manufacturing/https://designquantum.com/news/foxconn-quantum-manufacturing/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingYoung 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 processorshttps://designquantum.com/news/eon-qoro-nqcc-distributed-qaoa/https://designquantum.com/news/eon-qoro-nqcc-distributed-qaoa/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSoftwareA 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 signatureshttps://designquantum.com/news/btq-qperfect-one-shot-signatures/https://designquantum.com/news/btq-qperfect-one-shot-signatures/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCBTQ 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 targethttps://designquantum.com/news/wolfspeed-optical-sic/https://designquantum.com/news/wolfspeed-optical-sic/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHardwareWolfspeed 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 agencieshttps://designquantum.com/news/pqcee-carahsoft-pqc/https://designquantum.com/news/pqcee-carahsoft-pqc/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCpQCee 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 servicehttps://designquantum.com/news/lumen-quantum-pqc-plans/https://designquantum.com/news/lumen-quantum-pqc-plans/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNetworkingLumen 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 processorhttps://designquantum.com/news/iqm-54-qubit-entanglement/https://designquantum.com/news/iqm-54-qubit-entanglement/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHardwareIQM 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 platformhttps://designquantum.com/news/idemia-emvco-pqc-card/https://designquantum.com/news/idemia-emvco-pqc-card/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCIDEMIA 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 APIhttps://designquantum.com/news/btq-mimiq-qbraid/https://designquantum.com/news/btq-mimiq-qbraid/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSoftwareBTQ 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 estimatehttps://designquantum.com/news/alice-bob-rsa-2048-22593-qubits/https://designquantum.com/news/alice-bob-rsa-2048-22593-qubits/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCA 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 H2https://designquantum.com/news/quantinuum-nqcc-qldpc-surgery/https://designquantum.com/news/quantinuum-nqcc-qldpc-surgery/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTError correctionA 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 linkshttps://designquantum.com/news/psiquantum-ocs/https://designquantum.com/news/psiquantum-ocs/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHardwarePsiQuantum 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 runshttps://designquantum.com/news/pasqal-ai-workflow/https://designquantum.com/news/pasqal-ai-workflow/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSoftwarePasqal'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 HyperLighthttps://designquantum.com/news/nvision-hyperlight/https://designquantum.com/news/nvision-hyperlight/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHardwareNVision'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 networkhttps://designquantum.com/news/ionq-afrl/https://designquantum.com/news/ionq-afrl/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNetworkingIonQ 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 Koreahttps://designquantum.com/news/dwave-lg-cns/https://designquantum.com/news/dwave-lg-cns/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingD-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 chiphttps://designquantum.com/news/bluequbit-nighthawk-advantage/https://designquantum.com/news/bluequbit-nighthawk-advantage/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearchA BlueQubit preprint reports 61-qubit random-circuit sampling on IBM's ibm_phoenix in 19 seconds, estimating about 110 years on the Frontier supercomputer. Post-quantum cryptography: the NIST standards and how migration workshttps://designquantum.com/explainers/post-quantum-cryptography-guide/https://designquantum.com/explainers/post-quantum-cryptography-guide/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTExplainerHow NIST’s first post-quantum standards fit together, why migration must start before Q-Day, and the practical steps organizations face now. Quantum key distribution vs post-quantum cryptography: what each protects againsthttps://designquantum.com/explainers/qkd-vs-pqc/https://designquantum.com/explainers/qkd-vs-pqc/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTExplainerHow quantum key distribution and post-quantum cryptography differ in goals, assumptions, deployment trade-offs, and the threats each addresses. Quantum error correction and logical qubits, explainedhttps://designquantum.com/explainers/quantum-error-correction-explained/https://designquantum.com/explainers/quantum-error-correction-explained/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTExplainerHow quantum error correction turns many noisy physical qubits into more reliable logical qubits, and why code distance, thresholds, and surface codes matter. Superconducting, trapped-ion, neutral-atom, photonic, spin and more: qubit modalities comparedhttps://designquantum.com/explainers/qubit-modalities-compared/https://designquantum.com/explainers/qubit-modalities-compared/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTExplainerA practical comparison of leading qubit modalities—superconducting, trapped-ion, neutral-atom, photonic, spin, topological and annealing. What is a qubit? A clear guide to the building block of quantum computershttps://designquantum.com/explainers/what-is-a-qubit/https://designquantum.com/explainers/what-is-a-qubit/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTExplainerA plain-English guide to qubits: what they are, how superposition and measurement work, and why quantum bits differ from classical bits. Stuttgart runs entanglement-based QKD from a quantum dot over a deployed campus fiberhttps://designquantum.com/news/stuttgart-quantum-dot-qkd/https://designquantum.com/news/stuttgart-quantum-dot-qkd/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNetworkingA 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 traininghttps://designquantum.com/news/quantrolox-series-a2/https://designquantum.com/news/quantrolox-series-a2/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusiness and fundingOxford 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 superconductivityhttps://designquantum.com/news/quantinuum-ge-vernova/https://designquantum.com/news/quantinuum-ge-vernova/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearchQuantinuum 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 predicthttps://designquantum.com/news/pasqal-256-qubit-magnet/https://designquantum.com/news/pasqal-256-qubit-magnet/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearchA 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 softwarehttps://designquantum.com/news/nqcp-pelagic-systems/https://designquantum.com/news/nqcp-pelagic-systems/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSoftwarePelagic 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 targetshttps://designquantum.com/news/nist-ir-8547/https://designquantum.com/news/nist-ir-8547/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCNIST 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' suitehttps://designquantum.com/news/ibm-quantum-safe-suite/https://designquantum.com/news/ibm-quantum-safe-suite/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecurity and PQCIBM 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 cableshttps://designquantum.com/news/ibm-l-couplers/https://designquantum.com/news/ibm-l-couplers/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearchIBM 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 oxideshttps://designquantum.com/news/lanl-qcware-sqd-iron-oxides/https://designquantum.com/news/lanl-qcware-sqd-iron-oxides/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearchA 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.