Industry
Funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, product launches, and market developments across the quantum computing industry and its enabling ecosystem.
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NIST and SRI Launch the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center
NIST is investing $20 million to establish a Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center with SRI International, moving from the consortium that mapped the quantum industry to a center tasked with manufacturing at scale.
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WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: PQC Audit
The World Economic Forum placed two quantum-related entries on its 2026 Top 10 list. The coverage of PQC and quantum simulation carries factual errors and framing choices that weaken both entries.
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AIX Global Innovations Claims Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) on Rented Hardware. Their Own Paper Says Otherwise.
AIX Global Innovations claims FTQC on rented IBM hardware at one physical qubit per logical qubit. Their own paper reveals they operate at code distance 1, which by definition corrects zero errors. Here is what the paper actually says.
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QuEra Announces Libra: 256 Logical Qubits on Amazon Braket by 2028
QuEra's Libra targets 256 error-corrected logical qubits and a one-in-a-million error rate on Amazon Braket by 2028. Every building block has been demonstrated in peer-reviewed research. This is either the most credible fault-tolerance roadmap in quantum computing, or the most…
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IonQ Demonstrates qLDPC Breakeven on Trapped Ions — and the Flexibility Argument Just Got Harder to Ignore
IonQ's 40-ion trapped-ion device runs nine different error-correcting codes with zero hardware changes and hits breakeven on qLDPC codes — beating the only superconducting comparison by up to 9×. The real story is what this means for the qubit-efficient architectures…
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Atom Computing Demonstrates Quantum Error Correction With Toric Code, a First for Neutral Atoms
Atom Computing's toric code demonstration is the first sustained quantum error correction on a neutral-atom platform, running 90 syndrome extraction rounds with continuous atom reloading.
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OQC Raises £260M in Europe’s Largest Private Quantum Round — Where the Money Actually Goes
Europe's largest private quantum round lands at £260M, with 38% from the British Business Bank. The money is earmarked for OQC's TITAN system, but the gap between 32 qubits today and 200 logical qubits by 2028 demands closer examination.
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Joining Project Eleven as Advisor
I don't usually announce advisory roles. This one is different, because making digital assets quantum-safe may be the hardest PQC migration challenge of all.
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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 Chip Achieves 20-Second Parity Lifetime — But the Topological Qubit Debate Rages On
Microsoft's second topological quantum chip achieves a 1,000-fold improvement in parity lifetime by swapping aluminum for lead. The engineering progress is real. Whether these are topological qubits at all remains fiercely contested.
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IBM Commits $10 Billion to Quantum, Launches America’s First Quantum Chip Foundry
IBM's five-year, $10 billion quantum commitment funds the Starling fault-tolerant system by 2029 and Anderon, a standalone quantum chip foundry in Albany backed by $1 billion in CHIPS Act incentives.
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D-Wave Bets Its Future on Gate-Model Quantum Computing with 2032 Fault-Tolerance Roadmap
D-Wave's first Investor Day roadmap targets 100 fault-tolerant logical qubits by 2032 using dual-rail superconducting qubits. The annealing pioneer enters a crowded gate-model race with an unproven architecture and ambitious error-reduction targets.
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France Answers the US CHIPS Act in 24 Hours, and NVIDIA Is Buying a Seat at Every Table
Macron added €1 billion to France's quantum strategy the day after the US committed $2 billion to quantum fabs. France's total quantum commitment now stands at €3.3 billion, and NVIDIA's investment in Alice & Bob landed the same afternoon.
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Washington Isn’t Funding Quantum Research. It’s Building Quantum Factories.
Washington's $2 billion CHIPS Act quantum package isn't a research program. It's industrial policy — the U.S. is building quantum fabs, and that changes the calculus for everyone tracking the CRQC timeline.
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Jiuzhang 4.0: China’s 1,024-Input Photonic Processor Claims 10⁵⁴ Speedup
Pan Jian-Wei's team published a rigorous Nature paper showing an order-of-magnitude leap in photonic quantum scale. The engineering is impressive. The "quantum supremacy" framing from state media is a different matter entirely.
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China’s Hanyuan-2 “Dual-Core” Quantum Computer: Clever Marketing, Missing Benchmarks
CAS Cold Atom Technology's Hanyuan-2 uses two rubidium isotope arrays and calls itself the world's first dual-core quantum computer. The framing is clever. The missing performance data tells a different story.
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