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Dark concrete hall: six sealed cyan-lit conduits run from a distant older wall, one cut open and blazing, one track apart along the floor.
Quantumanalysis

Europe Is Sorting Quantum Hardware by Funding Instrument, Not Just Qubit Type

EuroHPC's six August quantum actions continue partnerships selected in 2022. The EU's platform-assessment roadmap is still a draft and is open for public comment.

Quantum TimelineSuperconducting Qubits
SCN Staff·
A low view along one aisle of a dark data hall. A small chassis in the near foreground glows cyan through a perforated panel; behind it a populated black rack, then a cabinet drawn only as a cyan wireframe, then bare steel uprights, then a faint taped rectangle on the floor, receding into darkness beneath a single overhead cable tray.
Quantumanalysis

Quantum Computers Are Moving On-Premises. The Deals Are Not All the Same.

A six-qubit ESA testbed, a 150-qubit EuroHPC purchase, a neutral-atom roadmap in Illinois and an NSF-funded integration platform share a location strategy, not a common level of readiness.

Quantum TimelineNeutral-Atom Quantum
SCN Staff·
An isometric view of two stacked chips against black: a dense control die above and a silicon quantum-dot array below, joined by a curtain of hair-fine parallel wires. A few wires glow cyan down to a small cluster of lit cells on the otherwise dark array.
Quantumanalysis

Silicon spin gains manufacturing evidence while demonstrated scale stays small

July brought integrated cryogenic control and new process-development commitments. HRL's chip can host 18 qubits, but its largest published circuit used seven.

Quantum Error CorrectionSpin Qubits
SCN Staff·
A dark steel precision caliper with its scale marked in billions of dollars - $2B, $4B, $6B, $8B, $10B - measuring a glowing cyan qubit lattice held in its jaws.
Quantumnews

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.

Silicon QuantumIBM
SCN Staff·
Close-up of a fiber-optic array being aligned with a photonic chip held in a precision metal fixture during lab assembly of Cisco's Universal Quantum Switch prototype.
Quantumnews

The Switch That Doesn't Collapse the Qubit

Cisco's research prototype and DARPA's 19-team backbone program together define what the first-generation network layer of a quantum-classical hybrid actually looks like, and what still doesn't work.

Trapped-Ion QuantumSilicon Quantum
SCN Staff·
Close-up Shot of Silicon Wafer at Advanced Semiconductor Foundry
Quantumnews

EU Launches SPINS Quantum Pilot Line to Manufacture Spin Qubit Chips

Led by imec and backed by the Chips Joint Undertaking, SPINS aims to prove that semiconductor fabs, not research labs, are where quantum computing finally scales. Ten countries and three silicon platforms, all betting on spin.

Silicon QuantumSpin Qubits
SCN Staff·