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The Incredible Shrinking Qubit Count: What Oratomic's $300M Neutral-Atom Bet Is Wagering On
On paper, the qubits to break RSA-2048 fell from a million to tens of thousands in a year, but the smaller machines trade the saving for weeks of runtime. Oratomic raised $300M to build one.
The Hardest Pieces of Fusion's Fuel Chemistry Ran on a Quantum Computer. The Weakest Link Is Now Classical.
ORNL, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM computed nine FLiBe configurations on quantum hardware. The quantum solver hit its marks; the workflow around it is now the bottleneck.
DOE Wants Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2028. The Roadmaps Show How Hard That Target Is to Define.
Logical qubit' means something different on every vendor roadmap, and DOE's 2028 target doesn't yet say which one counts. A 90-day specifications release this fall settles it.
Microsoft Pulled Its Quantum Timeline to 2029. Physicists Are Still Asking Whether It Has Demonstrated the Qubit
Majorana 2 halves Microsoft's timeline to a scalable machine and reports a 20-second parity lifetime. The preprint measured one observable on one nanowire, unreviewed; critics say that is not yet a demonstrated topological qubit.
IBM Discloses $10 Billion Quantum Investment Plan as 2029 Fault-Tolerance Target Comes Into Focus
IBM told investors it plans to spend more than $10 billion on quantum over five years. Annualized, that is roughly twice the U.S. federal QIS R&D budget, but the figure is a blended forward-looking plan, not a booked balance-sheet item.