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  • Jun- 2025 -
    21 June
    Industry News Microsoft 4D Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

    Microsoft Unveils New 4D Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

    Microsoft Quantum's researchers have introduced a new family of four-dimensional (4D) geometric quantum error-correcting codes that promise to dramatically outperform today’s standard 2D surface codes. Revealed in a new preprint "A Topologically Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer with Four Dimensional Geometric Codes" (arXiv:2506.15130v1) and an accompanying Microsoft blog post, these novel 4D LDPC codes (low-density parity-check codes) achieve 1,000-fold lower error rates…

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  • 19 June
    Industry News IonQ FTQC Roadmap

    IonQ’s 2025 Roadmap: Toward a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer by 2028

    IonQ has unveiled an accelerated quantum computing roadmap that, if realized, could deliver a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) as early as 2028. In a June 2025 announcement, the Maryland-based quantum startup – known for its trapped-ion technology – outlined dramatic scaling milestones enabled by recent acquisitions and technical breakthroughs. By leveraging Oxford Ionics’ chip-integrated ion traps and Lightsynq’s photonic…

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  • 14 June
    Industry News 2025 IBM Quantum Computing Roadmap

    IBM’s Roadmap to Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) by 2029 – News & Analysis

    June 10 2025 IBM made a landmark announcement outlining a clear path to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by the year 2029. Codenamed IBM Quantum “Starling,” this planned system will leverage a new scalable architecture to achieve on the order of 200 logical (error-corrected) qubits capable of executing 100 million quantum gates in a single computation. IBM’s…

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  • 13 June
    Industry News Oxford Trap Quantum Error Fidelity

    Oxford Achieves 10⁻⁷-Level Qubit Gate Error, Shattering Quantum Fidelity Records

    Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new world record for quantum logic accuracy, achieving single-qubit gate error rates below 10^-7 – meaning fidelities exceeding 99.99999%. The breakthrough, reported in a study published in Physical Review Letters in June 2025 marks the lowest error ever recorded for any quantum computing platform. “As far as we are aware, this…

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  • 13 June
    Industry News Forbes 20 Quantum Computing Reality

    A Reality Check on Forbes’ “20 Real-World Quantum Computing Applications”

    A few of Forbes’s examples are genuinely promising; several smash together disparate ideas without noting the engineering road‑map; and some miss key caveats that separate “demo‑ready” from “production‑ready.” The authors could have done a sharper job sorting mature use cases (think quantum key distribution) from long shots (say, universal quantum AI on petabyte‑scale data)—and of explaining the hardware, algorithmic, and…

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  • 7 June
    Industry News Cybersecurity Executive Order Quantum

    Trump’s New Cybersecurity Order – What Changed and Why It Matters – Quantum Perspective

    A New Executive Order Reshapes Cybersecurity Policy: On June 6, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a sweeping Executive Order titled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity”, which explicitly amends two earlier orders: Obama-era Executive Order 13694 (2015) and the outgoing Biden administration’s Executive Order 14144 (January 16, 2025). This new order largely preserves the overall framework of…

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  • May- 2025 -
    28 May
    Industry News Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Qubit Needs for RSA-2048

    Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Qubit Needs for RSA-2048 Factoring

    A new research preprint by Google Quantum AI scientist Craig Gidney has dramatically lowered the estimated resources needed to break RSA-2048 encryption using a quantum computer. Gidney’s May 2025 paper, “How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits,” argues that a fault-tolerant quantum computer with under 1 million qubits could factor a 2048-bit RSA…

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  • Mar- 2025 -
    13 March
    Industry News D-wave quantum advantage

    D-Wave Claims Quantum Supremacy with Quantum Annealing

    D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced a breakthrough, claiming to achieve quantum computational advantage – even “quantum supremacy” – using its quantum annealing technology on a practical problem. In a peer-reviewed study published in Science on March 12, 2025, D-Wave’s researchers report that their 5,000+ qubit Advantage2 prototype quantum annealer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers (Oak Ridge National…

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  • 11 March
    Industry News NIST PQC HQC

    NIST Picks HQC as New Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate

    Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits represent an exciting development in quantum engineering. They blend clever hardware design with advanced error-correcting codes to tackle the Achilles’ heel of quantum computers: noise. The research by Gu, Retzker, and Kubica shows that by making qubits a bit smarter about their own errors, we can significantly lower the overhead on the road…

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  • 6 March
    Industry News Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits

    Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) with Erasure Qubits

    Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits represent an exciting development in quantum engineering. They blend clever hardware design with advanced error-correcting codes to tackle the Achilles’ heel of quantum computers: noise. The research by Gu, Retzker, and Kubica shows that by making qubits a bit smarter about their own errors, we can significantly lower the overhead on the road…

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  • 4 March
    Industry News Zuchongzhi 3.0

    Zuchongzhi 3.0 Quantum Chip: Technical Analysis and Implications

    China’s quantum computing powerhouse, the Zuchongzhi research teams, just unveiled Zuchongzhi 3.0, a new superconducting quantum processor with 105 qubits, marking a major leap in quantum computing performance. Announced in March 2025 by a University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) team led by Pan Jianwei, Zhu Xiaobo, and Peng Chengzhi, this prototype boasts unprecedented processing speed – reportedly…

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  • Feb- 2025 -
    28 February
    Industry News Amazon AWS Ocelot Quantum Chip

    AWS Announces Ocelot Chip for Ultra-Reliable Qubits

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially unveiled Ocelot, its first in-house quantum computing chip, marking a significant milestone in the company’s quantum ambitions. Announced on February 27, 2025, Ocelot is a prototype processor designed from the ground up to tackle quantum error correction in a more resource-efficient way. AWS claims the new chip can reduce the overhead (and thus cost)…

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  • 23 February
    Industry News Microsoft Majorana 1

    Microsoft’s Majorana-Based Quantum Chip – Beyond the Hype

    In February 2025, Microsoft unveiled “Majorana 1,” an eight-qubit quantum chip built on a topological qubit architecture – a first-of-its-kind design leveraging exotic Majorana quasiparticles. This chip uses a new material called a “topoconductor” (a specially engineered topological superconductor) made from indium arsenide and aluminum, which can host and control Majorana zero modes (MZMs) to serve as qubits. Microsoft’s announcement…

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  • Jan- 2025 -
    19 January
    Industry News Executive Order 14144 Quantum

    Executive Order 14144: Biden’s Big Swing at Cybersecurity Modernization

    On January 16 2025 President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14144, “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The 17‑page directive is the administration’s most comprehensive cyber policy since EO 14028 in 2021 and, for the first time, embeds post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration deadlines directly in federal law. At its core the order: Puts PQC on a clock. CISA must publish, within 180 days, a list…

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  • Dec- 2024 -
    30 December
    Industry News Russia 50-Qubit Quantum Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

    Russia Unveils First 50-Qubit Quantum Computer Prototype

    Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits represent an exciting development in quantum engineering. They blend clever hardware design with advanced error-correcting codes to tackle the Achilles’ heel of quantum computers: noise. The research by Gu, Retzker, and Kubica shows that by making qubits a bit smarter about their own errors, we can significantly lower the overhead on the road…

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