Twenty‑eight partners across 11 European countries will build an industrial manufacturing base for lasers, atom chips and other neutral‑atom quantum technologies.
Infleqtion, Honeywell Aerospace, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have prototyped an integrated optical cavity on silicon nitride chips for laser stabilization in quantum devices.
IBM Quantum announced a new execution model, directed execution. The new primitive, Executor, lets clients inspect and modify error mitigation and circuit randomization from the client side.
D-Wave has launched a beta program for a gate-model quantum simulator based on dual-rail superconducting technology. Four organizations will develop applications with an eye toward future hardware.
Classiq has announced its Fault Tolerance Engine, which plans qubit placement and routing and estimates the physical resources required for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
IonQ has signed a contract with Florida International University to install its trapped‑ion quantum computer Superion 256 on campus.
On its neutral-atom system Sqale, Infleqtion formed 30 logical qubits from 80 physical qubits and executed about 1,000 physical operations.
Diraq has designed an 8‑qubit system being deployed in a commercial data center to run under 20 kW. For a future million‑qubit‑scale system, it assumes about 300 kW including classical compute components.
Q-CTRL’s error‑suppression software Fire Opal now supports IBM Quantum Nighthawk. In a 60‑qubit fermionic simulation it reported roughly a 12× speedup versus previous hardware.
Q-CTRL introduced Boulder Opal, software that automates quantum processor calibration, and presented calibration times and gate fidelities on a QuantWare D-Line QPU.
IQM has signed a delivery contract with Brazil’s Eldorado Research Institute. The IQM Spark will be installed in Q1 2027, and remote access to a 54‑qubit cloud system will also be provided.
Quemix has begun offering a new version of Quloud that implements joint research results with Idemitsu Kosan. It computes ion conduction under electric fields while tracking changes in charge.
IBM announced a technical approach that continuously combines quantum error mitigation and quantum error correction. In a spacetime-code demonstration, it improved effective gate error rates by roughly tenfold.
Q-CTRL updated its quantum infrastructure software Fire Opal, adding constrained optimization, Pauli twirling to reduce residual errors, and a compiler option to suppress approximations.
TOYO Corporation has purchased an additional IQM Spark. Together with the already acquired Radiance 20, the systems will be put into operation from early 2027 and made available to domestic companies, universities, and research institutions.
A single program written in CUDA‑Q was executed across real qubits, a PPU, GPU and CPU. Quantum‑to‑classical information exchange took about 1 microsecond.
Infleqtion has announced integration results for qLDPC and CUDA‑Q Logical. It built and validated a high‑rate code that uses about six physical data qubits per logical qubit.
Using NVIDIA CUDA‑Q Logical, they show a qLDPC approach can potentially maintain its low overhead on Diraq’s spin‑qubit platform.
Photonic has unveiled Project VANGUARD, a multi-tenant semiconductor fabrication facility planned to serve quantum, AI and defense sectors.
Qblox and Riverlane demonstrated a hardware real-time QEC feedback loop from measurement readout to conditional correction. The total round-trip latency on Surface-161 was 11.886 microseconds.
Q-CTRL has released a function for expectation estimation on real quantum hardware, and added a finance-focused tutorial. The company says the feature can run on up to 17 qubits.
IQM plans a staged deployment of a quantum computer for the LUMI AI Factory beginning in 2027, aiming to enable real-time quantum error correction and up to 9 logical qubits.
Xanadu has added Backline to PennyLane to integrate control of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and quantum processors from a single interface, claiming end-to-end communication latency under 3 microseconds.
The latest version of the optimization development environment Fixstars Amplify SDK has been released. Fixstars says it reduces memory consumption by up to 80% and speeds formulation up to 30× compared with the previous version.
IonQ has announced its sixth‑generation quantum computer, the Superion 256. The system adopts electronic ion control and standard semiconductor manufacturing processes, with customer deliveries planned for 2027.
They encoded protein structures related to gelation on neutral-atom quantum hardware. This is an initial proof-of-concept aiming to combine AI and quantum computing for applications in food and life sciences.
RIKEN’s JHPC-quantum has adopted QunaSys’ development kit. The environment will link HPCs such as Fugaku with IBM and Quantinuum quantum computers.
IBM has released the 120‑qubit Nighthawk r2. IBM says independent fast reset capability enables more than 100,000 circuit executions per second and reduces initialization errors.
Aiming to realize fault-tolerant quantum computers and quantum data centers by focusing on reducing photon loss and quantum error correction.
They jointly developed two foundational algorithms targeting large-matrix CAE computations to reduce quantum processing workload and improve calculation accuracy.