Quantum Industry News – PostQuantum – Marin Ivezic

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) ...

PsiQuantum publishes the first complete photonic quantum computing platform fabricated in a commercial semiconductor foundry, with record fidelities across every building block ...

QuantWare has introduced Contralto‑A, a new superconducting quantum processing unit aimed specifically at advancing practical quantum error correction (QEC) development. Announced in Delft, The Netherlands, the processor is positioned for teams working on surface-code style QEC demonstrations and early fault‑tolerance roadmaps. According to the company, Contralto‑A includes up to 17 transmon qubits and tunable couplers, and is optimized to run ...

24 Feb 2025 - There is a difference between proving you can throw a ball and proving you can play a game. For three years, silicon spin qubits have been proving they can throw: individual gate operations above the fault-tolerance threshold, entanglement between pairs and triplets of qubits, the steady accumulation of quality metrics that justify the platform's ambitions. But ...

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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South Korea has selected four domestic PQC algorithms through its KpqC competition, none of which are NIST standards. The choice to run a parallel standardization process alongside NIST adoption raises interoperability questions that multinationals cannot ignore ...

The EU Cyber Resilience Act doesn't mention "post-quantum" by name. But its requirement that products support cryptographic updates throughout their lifecycle effectively mandates the architectural capability that PQC migration depends on: crypto-agility ...

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 ...

The Bank of Israel's Banking Supervision Department has issued a directive requiring every banking corporation to map its cryptographic exposure, assess quantum risks, and submit a formal preparedness plan within one year. Among the earliest binding financial-sector directives globally ...

NIST has just released the initial public draft of CSWP 48, part of its Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography project: "Mappings of Migration to PQC Project Capabilities to NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and to Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations." ...

Chinese researchers published “A First Successful Factorization of RSA-2048 Integer by D-Wave Quantum Computer.” To get straight to the point - the title is misleading. The authors did NOT factor a general RSA-2048 key (as used in real cryptography); instead, they factored a specially structured 2048-bit semiprime chosen to be extremely easy ...

In a landmark experiment, Google Quantum AI researchers have demonstrated the first quantum memory operating below the error-correction threshold on a superconducting processor. Using two new “Willow” quantum chips of 72 and 105 qubits, the team ran surface code error-correction cycles that actually outperformed the best physical qubits, a long-sought milestone in quantum computing. For the larger distance-7 surface code ...

Russian scientists have unveiled the country’s first prototype quantum computer to achieve 50 qubits, marking a significant leap in its national quantum program​. Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and the Russian Quantum Center (RQC) developed the 50-qubit device using neutral rubidium atoms as quantum bits​. The prototype was successfully tested on December 19, 2024, just in time to ...

The updated FAQ locks in ML-KEM-1024 and ML-DSA-87 as the only approved public-key algorithms, excludes SLH-DSA entirely, and lays out enforcement timelines that start biting in 2025 ...

18 Dec 2024 - The Tianyan-504, China's most powerful quantum computer, was formally unveiled on December 5, 2024 and is slated for integration into China Telecom's Tianyan quantum computing cloud platform, where it will be accessible to users worldwide. The announcement, made through Xinhua and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, marks the next stage for the 504-qubit Xiaohong chip: from ...

Google has unveiled a new quantum processor named “Willow”, marking a major milestone in the race toward practical quantum computing. The 105-qubit Willow chip demonstrates two breakthroughs that have long eluded researchers: it dramatically reduces error rates as qubit count scales up, and it completed a computational task in minutes that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the age ...

IBM has announced a new 156-qubit quantum processor called Heron R2, marking a significant upgrade to its quantum computing hardware portfolio. The Heron R2 chip is the second-generation follow-up to IBM’s 133-qubit “Heron” processor introduced in late 2023. Building on its predecessor, the Heron R2 not only adds more qubits but also delivers major improvements in qubit coherence, gate fidelity, ...