IQM LUMI AI factory contract puts 150 qubits beside a supercomputer
The LUMI AI Factory selected IQM Quantum Computers on 8 July to deliver a 150 qubit superconducting system to Kajaani in Finland by 2027.
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The LUMI AI Factory selected IQM Quantum Computers on 8 July to deliver a 150 qubit superconducting system to Kajaani in Finland by 2027.
IBM published results on 3 July from its Quantum Credits programme, which provides free access to its most capable hardware for university faculty and research scientists.
IBM will commission one of India's first physical quantum computers in Amaravati by September 2026, installing an IBM Quantum System Two with a 156 qubit Heron processor.
IQM Quantum Computers began trading on Nasdaq on 2 July under the ticker IQMX, becoming the first European quantum computing company to list on a major American exchange.
Quantinuum announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 22 June to integrate quantum computing with high performance computing and artificial intelligence environments.
President Trump signed two quantum executive orders on 22 June, published in the Federal Register three days later. Executive Order 14412, Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks, mandates an accelerated government-wide migration to post-quantum cryptography.
Two new preprint studies from Google Quantum AI and Cornell University suggest quantum computers capable of breaking today’s encryption may arrive far sooner than expected, potentially before the end of this decade.
Google Quantum AI is inviting outsiders onto its most advanced quantum chip.
Alice & Bob has completed GPU-accelerated decoding of its proprietary Elevator Codes in 1 hour 57 minutes via NVIDIA CUDA-Q integration, demonstrating practical error correction for biased noise cat qubits.
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have demonstrated universal fault-tolerant quantum computation using code-switching, achieving quadratic suppression of logical error rates.
The UK commits over £1 billion to quantum computing research as part of a broader £2 billion national strategy, citing national security urgency and the race to commercialise next-generation computing.
IQM and Zurich Instruments are building a real-time QEC demonstrator combining a 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer with NVIDIA NVQLink for enterprise and datacentre deployment.
IBM has released the industry’s first quantum-centric supercomputing reference architecture, outlining a three-layer blueprint for integrating quantum processors with classical HPC resources.
IBM and an international team have created the first molecule with half-Möbius electronic topology, validated by quantum simulation showing helical electron orbitals that classical computers cannot replicate.
A team has used quantum capacitance to read Majorana qubit states for the first time, confirming millisecond-scale parity coherence times that demonstrate the protected nature of topological qubits.
The United States has reclassified 18 advanced technologies including quantum computing as critical to national security, granting the Commerce Department new authority to control exports.
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