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France Unveils Proposed National Strategy for Quantum Technologies

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After several months of hearings in 2019, French Parliament member Paula Forteza has presented a plan to structure a national strategy for quantum technologies. In reviewing the significant investments that have already been started in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Canada, Australia and other countries, France does not want to be left behind. The 68 page plan, with the title “Quantum: the technological turn that France will not miss” calls for an investment of 1.4 billion Euros over five years from sources including the public sector, private sector, local governments, and European Union support. Other key elements of the plan include: Listing of 37 specific proposal (shown below) Formation of 20 exploratory projects with annual budgets of up to 10 million Euros per year Creation of 3 Centers of Excellence Launch of 50 quantum startups by 2024 Establishment of a late stage investment fund of 300 to 500 million Euros The full plan has been published in French and you...
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IBM Discusses Quantum Computing Applications and Customers at CES

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dougfinke1 2020-01-08T21:00:29-08:00 In a large presentation at today’s CES show, IBM described how they are making progress in acquiring customers and working with them to develop applications that will take advantage of quantum computing.  Highlights of their presentation include: They have expanded their IBM Q Network to include over 100 organizations in industries as far ranging as airlines, automotive, banking and finance, energy, insurance, materials and electronics. They recently expanded their startup partners in the IBM Q Network by adding five new companies.  By our count, they now have partnerships with 27 different startup companies. They described research efforts with Daimler AG (parent of Mercedes) to use quantum computers to model next generation lithium-sulfur batteries for automobiles. They are entering a multi-year collaborative effort with Delta Airlines to explore applications of quantum computing in the airline industry. They now h...
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IBM Doubles Their Quantum Volume Performance Metric to 32

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dougfinke1 2020-01-08T17:55:03-08:00 We had previously reported on IBM’s Quantum Volume metric and their goal of achieving a doubling of this measure every year. This factor takes into account a number of factors including qubit count, qubit quality, qubit connectivity, crosstalk considerations and a number of other factors to provide a relative figure of merit for a quantum computer design.  This metric is technology agnostic and could conceivable be used by other gate level quantum computer developers. In March of 2019, they announced that they had increased this factor to 16 with the announcement of their IBM Q System One.  Now, they have announced they have doubled this once again to 32 with a new 28 qubit design called Raleigh. This design combines the lattice structure of the 53 qubit design (the 28 qubit would appear to look roughly like half of the 53 qubit design) that they introduced last year with additional upgrades implemented in some of th...
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Quantum Machines Announces its Quantum Orchestration Platform

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dougfinke1 2020-01-07T14:30:40-08:00 Building a quantum computer requires assembling a lot of different pieces.  This includes the quantum chip, the control electronics and control firmware, mechanical packaging, software, libraries, etc.  The complexity of assembling all these pieces can be a big challenge.  Although a large company like IBM can assemble the diverse set of talent to do all of this, it has been much more difficult for a small startup or even a university research organization to build their own a quantum computer with all the pieces unless they are very well funded. This is where Quantum Machines’ Quantum Orchestration Platform fits in.  Although there are many efforts to build quantum chips, the complexity of providing the necessary control electronics and control firmware and software to control the chips can be just as difficult and the expertise to do this may not be as readily available.  The Quantum Orchestration Pl...
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Quantum Computing Outlook for 2020

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The year 2019 was a busy year in the quantum community with a lot of new developments and announcements.  We are sure that 2020 will be just as busy, if not more so, and expect continued advances.  We have seen some of the roadmaps that folks in the industry have discussed so with our intrepid 20/20 vision (pardon the pun!) we will describe some of the developments that we expect to see this year. Hardware Hardware providers will continue to make advances in both qubit count, qubit quality and new technologies in 2020.  Things we expect to see include: In September 2018, Rigetti announced a new architecture they call Aspen starting with a 16 qubit chip, advancing to an intermediate density of 32 or 64 qubits with a large version of 128 qubits in their roadmap.  In December they announced their 32 qubit version, called Aspen-7, which will run on both Rigetti’s QCS as well as Amazon’s Braket cloud services .  In 2020, we expect that they will announce ...
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Quantum Computing Outlook for 2020

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The year 2019 was a busy year in the quantum community with a lot of new developments and announcements.  We are sure that 2020 will be just as busy, if not more so, and expect continued advances.  We have seen some of the roadmaps that folks in the industry have discussed so with our intrepid 20/20 vision (pardon the pun!) we will describe some of the developments that we expect to see this year. Hardware Hardware providers will continue to make advances in both qubit count, qubit quality and new technologies in 2020.  Things we expect to see include: In September 2018, Rigetti announced a new architecture they call Aspen starting with a 16 qubit chip, advancing to an intermediate density of 32 or 64 qubits with a large version of 128 qubits in their roadmap.  In December they announced their 32 qubit version, called Aspen-7, which will run on both Rigetti’s QCS as well as Amazon’s Braket cloud services .  In 2020, we expect that they will announce ...
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Quantum Computing Outlook for 2020

The year 2019 was a busy year in the quantum community with a lot of new developments and announcements.  We are sure that 2020 will be just as busy, if not more so, and expect continued advances.  We have seen some of the roadmaps that folks in the industry have discussed so with our intrepid 20/20 vision (pardon the pun!) we will describe some of the developments that we expect to see this year. Hardware Hardware providers will continue to make advances in both qubit count, qubit quality and new technologies in 2020.  Things we expect to see include: In September 2018, Rigetti announced a new architecture they call Aspen starting with a 16 qubit chip, advancing to an intermediate density of 32 or 64 qubits with a large version of 128 qubits in their roadmap.  In December they announced their 32 qubit version, called Aspen-7, which will run on both Rigetti’s QCS as well as Amazon’s Braket cloud services .  In 2020, we expect that they will announce ...
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