Rigetti Computing is using a multi-chip, modular approach to scale quantum computers. It manufactures its chips at Fab-1, the world’s first dedicated quantum chip foundry.
Intel Corporation and QuTech make significant headway in solving for the “interconnect or wiring bottleneck” which is a major constraint on the road to quantum scalability.
Since India has the intent, the plan and the funds, Sunil Gupta of QNu Labs is confident that the Covid-19-hit quantum computing programme will gather momentum in 2021.
India needs to rely on indigenous technology to create a quantum shield around its critical infrastructure due to unprecedented attacks by state as well as non-state actors says QNu’s Sunil Gupta.
In a first of its kind initiative in the world, Amazon Web Services to provide quantum computing as a service to Indian scientists and researchers in a collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
As China continues extended trials of its central bank digital currency, Britain too signals serious intent on a potential digital currency, a Britcoin if you may.
Three Chinese quantum computing firms and a handful of chipmakers have been put on a trade blacklist by the US government to curb export of US technology.
At the centre of geopolitical jostling in the Indo-Pacific, Australia plans to beef up its technological edge in nine critical areas including quantum computing.
The American technology major has achieved an intermediate milestone in its predetermined journey towards building a 1,000-qubit plus quantum computer within two years.