At Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, Julie Love, senior director of Quantum Computing at Microsoft, revealed plans to jump into the quantum hardware business with a chip capable of running quantum software. The company said it […]
When quantum computing hits the market, the financial-services industry could be the first to benefit, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive said at a quantum-computing panel event. “In the universe of industries where there is a potential quantum […]
McKinsey has just issued an interesting paper about innovation in Europe and propose five paths which could build on its strengths and help the continent regain its competitive edge. Some excerpts: Europe’s startup scene is thriving: […]
Industrial giant Honeywell is bringing its quantum computing hardware to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. Although Microsoft has for a long time been developing its own quantum circuitry, the partnership with Honeywell offers the company […]
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has participated in an extension of the recent funding of IonQ, which comprises a sum of over 55 million US […]
Volkswagen is launching in Lisbon the world’s first pilot project for traffic optimization using a quantum computer. For this purpose, the company is equipping MAN buses of the public transport provider Carris with a traffic […]
D-Wave Systems announced that it will house its first European Leap quantum cloud-based system outside of North America at the Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany. The system marks the cornerstone of the new Jülich […]
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £30 million to invest in projects that remove technological barriers to speeding up the commercialisation of the second generation of quantum technologies. The […]
Samsung and Mubadala Capital, a Emirati investment fund, are leading a new $55 Million funding round for IonQ, the startup that uses “trapped ions,” or charged particles suspended in a vacuum, as the basis for […]
A team of researchers from Barclays’ chief technology and innovation office, in collaboration with IBM, have published a paper describing a proof-of-concept quantum optimised application. The paper, Quantum algorithms for mixed binary optimization, published earlier in October, […]