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Feb- 2025 -28 FebruaryIndustry
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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27 FebruaryIndustry
QuantWare unveils Contralto‑A, a QPU designed for quantum error correction experiments
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…
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23 FebruaryIndustry
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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Dec- 2024 -31 DecemberSystems & Engineering
Google AI’s Surface Code Breaks the Quantum Error Threshold
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…
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18 DecemberIndustry
Tianyan-504 Goes Live: China’s 504-Qubit Quantum Computer Joins the Cloud
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…
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11 DecemberIndustry
Google Announces Willow Quantum Chip
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…
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Nov- 2024 -20 NovemberIndustry
IBM Unveils 156-Qubit ‘Heron R2’ Quantum Processor
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,…
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Aug- 2024 -30 AugustIndustry
India Tests First Indigenous 6-Qubit Quantum Processor
India has achieved a significant quantum computing milestone with its first successful test of a homegrown 6-qubit superconducting quantum processor. A team of scientists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) completed end-to-end testing of the 6-qubit device, marking a major step in India’s quantum research efforts. This…
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Jun- 2024 -19 JunePolicy & Sovereignty
Israel’s IQCC Opens as a “Quantum Data Center” Built for Interoperability, Hybrid HPC, and Sovereignty
In a June 17, 2024 press release, Quantum Machines announced the opening of the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC) — a new facility in Tel Aviv designed to give researchers and startups something that’s been chronically scarce in quantum computing: hands-on access to serious infrastructure, not just limited cloud time on someone else’s machine. The center is located at Tel…
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May- 2024 -11 MayIndustry
China Unveils Xiaohong: A 504-Qubit Processor
Chinese researchers have announced “Xiaohong”, a new superconducting quantum processor boasting 504 qubits – the largest such chip ever built in China. This record-breaking processor, developed by the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics in collaboration with industry partner QuantumCTek, vaults China into the upper echelon of quantum hardware achievements. Xiaohong’s qubit count surpasses previous domestic…
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Apr- 2024 -4 AprilIndustry
Microsoft Announces Record Breaking Logical Qubit Results
Microsoft and Quantinuum have announced a major quantum computing breakthrough: the creation of the most reliable logical qubits on record, with error rates 800 times lower than those of physical qubits. In an achievement unveiled on April 3, 2024, the teams reported running over 14,000 quantum circuit trials without a single uncorrected error. This accomplishment was made possible by combining…
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Jan- 2024 -15 JanuaryIndustry
Origin Quantum’s Wukong: China’s 72-Qubit Processor
In a major milestone for China’s quantum tech ambitions, Hefei-based startup Origin Quantum has unveiled “Wukong,” a 72-qubit superconducting quantum processor. Launched on January 6, 2024, this third-generation quantum computer is China’s first home-grown superconducting quantum computer and the most advanced of its kind in the country. The system – named after the Monkey King Sun Wukong (famed for “72…
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Dec- 2023 -28 DecemberIndustry
IBM Unveils Next-Gen 133-Qubit ‘Heron’ Quantum Processor
IBM has announced a new superconducting quantum processor, code-named “Heron,” featuring 133 qubits and a host of architectural advances. The IBM Quantum Heron chip was unveiled at the IBM Quantum Summit 2023 as the company’s latest milestone in its quantum computing roadmap. IBM touts Heron as a next-generation processor that delivers significantly improved performance and reliability compared to its predecessors.…
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11 DecemberIndustry
IBM Unveils Condor: 1,121‑Qubit Quantum Processor
IBM has announced “Condor,” a superconducting quantum processor with a record-breaking 1,121 qubits – the largest of its kind to date. Unveiled at the IBM Quantum Summit 2023, Condor marks the first quantum chip to surpass 1,000 qubits, a milestone many in the field have eyed as a crucial step toward practical quantum computing. The new processor, built on IBM’s…
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Oct- 2023 -14 OctoberIndustry
Jiuzhang 3.0: China’s Photonic Quantum Computer
Chinese researchers have announced Jiuzhang 3.0, a new photonic quantum computing prototype that set a record by detecting 255 photons in a boson sampling experiment. Unveiled in October 2023 by a team led by renowned physicist Pan Jianwei, Jiuzhang 3.0 pushes the boundaries of photonic quantum computing with a demonstration that is 10 quadrillion times faster at solving a Gaussian…
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