December 2024

Insider Brief Quobly and STMicroelectronics announced a collaboration leveraging ST’s FD-SOI semiconductor process to develop scalable, cost-effective quantum processor units, targeting a 1-million-qubit advance by 2031. This partnership combines Quobly’s quantum expertise with ST’s manufacturing strengths, starting with adapting ST’s 28nm FD-SOI process for a 100-qubit machine scalable to over Read more…

Insider Brief Scientifica Venture Capital has launched a €200 million fund, Scientifica Fund 1 (SF1), to support start-ups in future computing, smart materials, advanced industry, and environmental technologies at all development stages. The fund introduces a Zero CapEx investment model with access to 4,000 m² of proprietary labs and 70 Read more…

Insider Brief Researchers at UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have developed a modular superconducting quantum processor with a reconfigurable router, enabling all-to-all qubit connectivity for scalable and flexible quantum computing. Unlike traditional 2-D grid designs, this processor clusters qubits around a central hub, drawing inspiration from classical computer networks Read more…

Insider Brief: Federal agencies face growing challenges in detecting security threats and inefficiencies within complex network communication patterns, requiring advanced tools for precise anomaly detection. Accenture Federal Services and Q-CTRL collaborated to apply quantum optimization, leveraging Q-CTRL’s Fire Opal software with IonQ hardware via Amazon Braket to improve anomaly detection Read more…

Insider Brief: Quantum Computing Inc. secured $50 million in gross proceeds via a registered direct offering and a concurrent private placement, selling a total of 10 million shares at $5.00 per share. The proceeds will support working capital, corporate purposes, and the development of QCi’s U.S.-based TFLN Photonic Chip Foundry Read more…

Insider Brief: Quobly demonstrated FD-SOI technology as a cost-efficient and scalable platform for quantum processors, using traditional CMOS manufacturing capabilities from industry leaders like STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung. Quobly’s platform uses silicon spin qubits, which feature microsecond clock speeds, over 99% fidelity, and compact unit cell sizes of ~100nm², making Read more…

Insider Brief A new hypothesis suggests that space-time itself stores quantum information, potentially resolving the Black Hole Information Paradox. The Quantum Memory Matrix (QMM) framework embeds data within quantized space-time, preserving unitarity and reconciling quantum mechanics with general relativity. QMM could also inform quantum computing, improve black hole models, and Read more…

Insider Brief Classiq Technologies, Deloitte Tohmatsu Group and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation are working together to explore materials development in the chemical field, including new organic electroluminescent (EL) materials. A new study used quantum computers in search of high-performance organic electroluminescent materials demonstrates efficiency in quantum algorithm implementation Results indicate acceleration of Read more…

Insider Brief: Arctic Instruments, a spinout from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, secured €2.35 million (approximately $2.47 million) in funding led by Lifeline Ventures to advance its superconducting microwave amplifier technology, essential for scaling quantum computers with accurate qubit state readout. The company’s amplifiers, developed through VTT’s research, are Read more…

Insider Brief Researchers from Haiqu and HSBC report on a method to encode large-scale financial data into quantum circuits using shallow and efficient designs. The technique leverages matrix product states and Tensor Cross Interpolation to efficiently handle heavy-tailed financial distributions like Lévy distributions. Their approach achieved encoding on IBM quantum Read more…