Spy chief says UK has to do more to counter China’s tech dominance
According to the head of a British intelligence service, the United Kingdom must continue to invest heavily in quantum computing to counter Chinese supremacy.
In a lecture scheduled for today, GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming will warn that the Chinese Communist Party is attempting to tighten its do... Read more
IBM invests $20 billion in New York state
IBM has announced that it will invest as much as $20 billion in New York State over the next ten years. This involves setting up chip production sites for high technology such as AI and quantum computing.
Big Blue announced the investments during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the IBM co... Read more
Intel Labs and Components Research partner to create quantum computing chips
Intel has tasked its primary researchers to work on creating quantum computing chips on a large scale.
Intel Corp is making waves in the technological sector. The primary research organization under Intel Corp, namely Intel Labs and Components Research, has partnered to work towards creating lar... Read more
IBM, Vodafone and GSMA collaborate on post-quantum cryptography
Telecom industry association GSMA launched a collaboration with IBM and Vodafone to integrate post-quantum encryption into the telecom industry.
The trio will become part of the GSMA Post-Quantum Telco Network Taskforce. The partners aim to develop policies, guidelines and workflows for post-qua... Read more
EU launches satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution system
Twenty European countries are partnering with the European Space Agency to develop Eagle-1, a satellite that provides a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system to improve cybersecurity throughout Europe.
The increase in digitization has elevated the need for data privacy to prevent data breaches.... Read more
Fujitsu set to become first Japanese quantum computing provider
The company will compete with the likes of Google and IBM for the Japanese quantum computing business.
Fujitsu partnered with the Riken research institute to offer quantum computing capabilities to companies operating in Japan, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. The announcement comes after ... Read more
Nvidia reveals QODA platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing
Nvidia released QODA, a platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing. The purpose is to make quantum computing more accessible.
The latest release of the QODA platform for quantum computing leaves no doubt about Nvidia's ambitions as a full-computing stack provider. This week, the organizatio... Read more
TU Delft researchers send quantum bits over network
Researchers from QuTech have succeeded in 'teleporting' quantum bits between three network nodes. The researchers recently published their breakthrough in Nature, a scientific journal.
QuTech is a research division of TU Delft, a renowned technical university in the Netherlands. The newly publis... Read more
OpenSSH 9 released with a focus on bug fixing and quantum computing
The new algorithm should protect against attacks by quantum computers.
This week marked the release of OpenSSH9. The release notes describe the adoption of the hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime + x25519 key exchange method.
"The NTRU algorithm is believed to resist attacks enabled by future quant... Read more
Fujitsu lays claim to world’s fastest quantum computing simulator
Fujitsu claims to have built the world's fastest quantum computing simulator. The simulator handles 36-qubit quantum circuits on a cluster system.
The simulator is based on Fujitsu's PRIMEHPC FX 700 supercomputer. This supercomputer features the same A64FX processor that powers Fugaku, the world... Read more