TOKYO, Feb. 11, 2025 — Quantinuum and Japan’s RIKEN research institution announced the on-premise installation of Quantinuum’s “Reimei” quantum computer at RIKEN’s Wako campus in Saitama, Japan. RIKEN said it has designed, prepared, and delivered a world-class facility for the trapped-ion quantum computer, “which will enable generations of high-performance quantum systems.” This machine is now fully […]
SoftBank and Quantinuum in Quantum Partnership
January 29, 2025 by
SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum today announced a partnership in quantum computing intended to “unlock innovative quantum computing solutions that will overcome the limitations of classical artificial intelligence and realize next-generation technologies.” Terms were not disclosed. SoftBank made news last week at the White House when President ….
HSBC and Quantinuum Pilot Quantum Security for Tokenized Gold
September 19, 2024 by
Sept. 19, 2023, London – HSBC, a British bank and financial services group, announced today that it has successfully trialled quantum-secure technology for buying and selling tokenised physical gold. The company said this marks the latest step by HSBC in the protection of critical applications from potential future quantum computing attacks. Last year, HSBC said it […]
Quantinuum Introduces Nexus Quantum Computing Platform
August 1, 2024 by
July 31, 2024 — Quantinuum has announced the beta availability of Quantinuum Nexus, which is designed to simplify quantum computing workflows with full-stack support. The company said it is inviting users to apply for beta availability; accepted users can work with Quantinuum on how Nexus can be adopted and customized. Quantinuum said Nexus was developed […]
Quantinuum Launches Trapped-Ion 56-Qubit Quantum Computer
June 5, 2024 by
BROOMFIELD, CO, and LONDON, June 5, 2024 – Integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum today unveiled what the company said is the industry’s first quantum computer with 56 trapped-ion qubits. “H2-1’s has further enhanced its market-leading fidelity and is now impossible for a classical computer to fully simulate,” Quantinuum said in its announcement. A joint team […]
JPMorgan Chase, Argonne and Quantinuum Show Theoretical Quantum Optimization Speedup
June 5, 2024 by
June 5, 2024 — In a new paper in Science Advances on May 29, researchers at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Quantinuum have demonstrated clear evidence of a quantum algorithmic speedup for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). This algorithm has been studied extensively and has been implemented […]
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
April 8, 2024 by
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business’s losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instances
Quantinuum and Microsoft Report 800x Lower Quantum Error Rate
April 4, 2024 by
Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in fault tolerant quantum computing “by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with active syndrome extraction, an achievement previously believed to be years away from realization,” the companies said.
Quantum: Honeywell Closes $300M Round for Quantinuum
January 17, 2024 by
There are those who still insist quantum computing is a false dream and a fool’s errand, but quantum continues to make incursions into broader validation and wider backing. Example: Quantum computing company Quantinuum, the result of a November 2021 merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions….
RIKEN Selects Quantinuum for Hybrid Quantum-HPC Platform
January 9, 2024 by
Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Japanese research institution and HPC center RIKEN announced that Quantinuum will provide RIKEN access to its H1-Series ion-trap quantum computing technology. The deployment will be part of RIKEN’s project to build a quantum-HPC hybrid platform that will include RIKEN’s Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer….
