Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
ARPA-E’s $37 Million Quantum Chemistry Program Is Now Underway
The Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), part of the U.S. Department of Energy, has started its three-year Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program, funded with $37 million. Teams must pick an energy-relevant application, target a scalable hundredfold improvement over classical methods and validate it at around 100 logical qubits. QuEra says its scientists are co-principal investigators on three of the nine teams and contribute neutral-atom hardware access and co-design expertise. Named projects include a superconductor search led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a magnet-discovery effort led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a hydrogen-electrolysis project led by Phasecraft with Johnson Matthey and Harvard University.
Source: QuEra press release
Quandela Delivers Vietnam’s First Quantum Computer
Vietnam is getting its first quantum computer: a photonic MosaiQ system from France’s Quandela, to be installed at Quang Trung University in Quy Nhơn and financially backed by Nam A Bank. The deal was announced on October 21 in Ho Chi Minh City. Beyond hardware, the package covers faculty training, new quantum curricula, a software suite, a Quantum Experience Center and a residency program for quantum innovators.
Source: Quandela newsroom
South Korea Expands Quantum Communication Testbeds to Three Hubs
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) is building three quantum communication test hubs — commercial, overseas and future — due for completion in 2028. KT leads the commercial and future hubs and will extend its Seoul–Pangyo–Daejeon test network to Daegu this year, while SK Broadband leads the overseas hub, which is to link with testbeds in Singapore, Poland and Bulgaria using quantum key distribution (QKD) for shorter links and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for long-haul connections. The project totals 7.4 billion won, split roughly evenly between government and private funding, though reports differ on whether that covers this year or the full 2026–2028 period.
Source: Seoul Economic Daily
SEEQC Reports Roughly 50% Better Decoding With an NVIDIA Pre-Decoder
SEEQC reports about a 50% improvement in decoding latency and logical error rate after pairing its chip-based pre-decoder with the Ising pre-decoder from NVIDIA, connected through SEEQC’s Digital Link and NVIDIA’s NVQLink. The pre-decoder runs close to the qubits, reducing the data sent to classical systems. The results come from a simulated quantum processor with realistic latency assumptions rather than hardware; the next phase is chip-to-chip integration within a high-performance computing (HPC) setup.
Source: Yahoo Finance
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