A new benchmark performed on chips from five different vendors has indicated how we can measure QPU performance as quantum computers become more advanced and useful.

Announced on April 3, 15 companies focused on quantum computing will work with DARPA researchers to scale their technology with one common goal: creating a utility scale quantum computer.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which also made the list, saw its shares rise. Shares of some quantum computing companies not selected and other artificial intelligence stocks made gains as well.

Unlike classical computing, which processes information through bits that can exist in either zeros or ones, quantum computing is an evolving field where quantum bits (or qubits) can occupy both ...

Today, the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) launched its first Insights Paper, "The convergence of healthcare and pharmaceuticals with quantum computing: A new fronter in medicine ...

The government is also an early investor in Silicon Quantum Computing, the company spun out of UNSW by 2018 Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons, which is also backed by Commonwealth Bank.

For years, cryptography experts have worried that the advent of quantum computing could spell doom for traditional encryption methods. With the technology now firmly on the horizon, the new NIST ...

Quantinuum said it had achieved a milestone for the quantum computing sector after its system completed a number-generation task outside the reach of traditional computers, just weeks after D-Wave ...

Technology giant Nvidia announced last Thursday that it will open a quantum computing research center in Boston by the end of 2025, where it will host research in partnership with labs at Harvard ...

Google's Julian Kelly predicts that quantum computers will solve practical problems in five years. This optimism is echoed by Bill Gates and Amazon's Andy Jassy ...

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