Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
IBM and Lockheed Martin Launch Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub at ETH Zurich
IBM and Lockheed Martin, through an offset agreement with armasuisse (Switzerland’s Federal Office for Defence Procurement), established a hub for quantum innovation at ETH Zurich, a leading Swiss public research university. The hub will host the country’s first IBM Quantum System Two at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, powered by IBM’s Quantum Nighthawk processor, with deployment expected by the end of 2026. ETH Zurich will give Swiss industries, startups and academia access to the system alongside education and workforce programs, while IBM and Lockheed Martin also plan joint research on quantum sensing for navigation and the additive manufacturing of metallic alloys.
Source: PR Newswire
Photonic Proposes CA$500 Million Semiconductor Facility for Canada’s Quantum Industry
Photonic Inc., a Vancouver-based quantum computing company, unveiled Project VANGUARD, a proposal for a CA$500 million (roughly US$359 million) multi-tenant semiconductor manufacturing facility anchored in Vancouver. The shared facility would serve companies working in quantum computing, AI, aerospace, defense, advanced sensing and semiconductor packaging, addressing a gap that currently forces many Canadian companies to scale manufacturing abroad. The proposal has been selected for inclusion in the Canada Investment Summit Prospectus, presented to institutional investors and allied governments at a summit hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board in Toronto on September 14 and 15.
Source: GlobeNewswire
Qedma and HQC2 Demonstrate Sharp Accuracy Gains in Quantum Chemistry
Qedma Quantum Computing, an Israeli quantum error-mitigation software company, together with the HQC2 team at the University of Copenhagen (KU), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), published results from a study mapping the potential energy surface of a water molecule on an IBM quantum processor using Qedma’s QESEM error-mitigation software. The approach achieved a 30-50x improvement in accuracy over raw, unmitigated results, illustrating how error mitigation can bridge today’s noisy quantum hardware with the precision required for real quantum-chemistry applications. The work, carried out under the Q-CHEMION project funded through the Eureka open call for applied quantum technologies, was presented at Q2B Copenhagen on September 9-10.
Source: PR Newswire
Infleqtion Cuts Error-Correction Overhead With NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical
Infleqtion, a Colorado-based neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced results from integrating its open-source qLDPC error-correction library with NVIDIA‘s newly launched CUDA-Q Logical orchestration layer. Working with an early-access version of the platform, Infleqtion researchers constructed and validated a high-rate quantum error-correction code using roughly six physical data qubits per logical qubit — about five times fewer physical qubits than a comparable surface-code approach. High physical-qubit overhead remains one of the central obstacles to commercially useful quantum computers; Infleqtion says the work builds on earlier qLDPC research conducted with JPMorgan Chase and targets reconfigurable neutral-atom hardware architectures.
Source: Business Wire
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