Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Quantum datacenters in London, investments, PQC, and highly optimistic roadmaps and critical milestones.
Today’s Brief Commentary:
I was in the UK last week, and although I sent out a newsletter before I left, there’s quite a bit to catch up on today. You might need a coffee and a refill to read it all.
I had two main reasons to go to England last week. The first was to attend a face-to-face Board of Directors meeting for Nu Quantum in Cambridge. The second was to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Quantum Datacenter Alliance in London. I’ve highlighted a recap of the event in the In the Spotlight link section below.
Like many conferences, events, and gatherings within the quantum community, this one had a robust, collegial atmosphere. Everyone wishes for the success of the industry, the technology, and its expected use cases. Yes, competitors were present, and many side conversations took place about the real progress made and funding rounds that had closed or were about to close; however, the tone and interactions were positive.
Of course, the intent wasn’t to be social, it was about laying the foundations for how quantum computing systems will operate in datacenters with other quantum and classical systems. This world will be networked, again, quantumly and classically, and it will be heterogeneous.
A few final orthogonal notes on press releases: I’ve been reviewing many of them ahead of publishing the Quantum Processing Unit and Quantum Software Market Landscape reports.
Do them. Some companies that appear to be still operating have not put out a release in two years.
If you can afford it, consider submitting them to one of the press release services, including Quantum Insider or HPCwire.
Also, put them on your own site!
Make it easy to find them on your website. Look at examples among your competitors, but common locations are Newsroom or Resources pages. If you do one thing beyond having a single-page website, do this.
Don’t forget the date!
Give the link a convenient name that includes the date. Do not call it something like “…/big-announcement” or “…/partner-announcement.html”.
I don’t track personnel changes or MOUs. I focus on technological advancements, public and private funding, deals closed, and partnerships.
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In the Spotlight
Nu Quantum Hosts International Forum to Accelerate Utility-Scale Quantum Computing
Date: Friday, June 27, 2025
Excerpt: The one day in-person Forum convened expert speakers from both quantum and classical computing industries, including Amadeus Capital Partners, IBM, CERN, McKinsey, and others, alongside QDA founding participants Cisco, Nu Quantum, NTT DATA, OQC, QphoX, Quantinuum and QuEra Computing.
Financial Dealings and Earnings Announcements
Quantum Networking Pioneer Qunnect Raises $10 Million in Oversubscribed Series A Extension Spearheaded by Airbus Ventures with Participation from Cisco Investments
https://www.qunnect.inc/press-release-2025-06-24
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Commentary: TLDR? One word: Cisco.
Excerpt: Qunnect announces closing an oversubscribed Series A extended financing round of $10M led by Airbus Ventures, with additional participation from Cisco Investments and Quantonation.
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
EU Presses for Quantum-Safe Encryption by 2030 as Risks Grow
Author: Matt Swayne
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Excerpt: The EU’s call, outlined in a strategic plan from the Network and Information Security (NIS) cooperation group, sets a timeline for transitioning critical sectors such as energy and telecommunications to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) by 2030. According to The Munich Eye, member countries are expected to begin this migration by the end of 2026, with a focus on building national readiness through awareness campaigns, risk assessments, and supply chain resilience.
How a post-quantum approach to cryptography can help protect mainframe data
https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/post-quantum-cryptography-protect-mainframe
Author: Anne Dames
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Commentary: The entire mainframe-specific information is in the excerpt. Yes, IBM has done a lot for PQC, but this piece could have talked much more about the topic in the title.
Excerpt: Demonstrating this commitment, the IBM Z® system became an early adopter of the 2 primary algorithms selected for PQC standardization by NIST with the launch of the IBM z16® system in April 2022. Security is engineered into the z16® system with 2 of the 4 NIST-standardized cryptographic algorithms built into the platform tier.
Quantum eMotion Announces Successful Completion of Quantum Simulation Project Evaluating Sentry-Q Cryptographic Architecture
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Commentary: Most of what you read about the quantum threat to cryptography concerns Shor's algorithm and asymmetric encryption. This is about brute force use of Grover's algorithm for symmetric encryption.
Excerpt: The benchmarking project, conducted in collaboration with PINQ², utilized IBM's Qiskit quantum computing framework to simulate Grover's algorithm—a quantum search algorithm known for its theoretical ability to speed up brute-force attacks on symmetric encryption schemes. The analysis focused on evaluating the relative complexity of attacking symmetric encryption algorithms when enhanced with entropy from QeM's proprietary Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG).
Quantum Computing
Quantum Art Unveils Aggressive Roadmap to Scalable Commercial Quantum Advantage by 2027, 1 Million Qubits by 2033
https://www.quantum-art.tech/resources/quantum-art-roadmap
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Commentary: Decent amount of detail. Welcome aboard the million-qubit train!
Excerpt: We present our technology and product roadmap targeting 1,000 Qubits and Quantum Advantage by 2027 and a 1M physical qubit system by 2033. The roadmap also includes the 2025 introduction of a 50-qubit system, and the rollout of an ultra-dense 2D architecture system in 2029 that will scale from 12,000 to 40,000 physical qubits and support thousands of logical qubits by 2031.
Quantinuum Overcomes Last Major Hurdle to Deliver Scalable Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers by 2029
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Commentary: Good science here. We'll see about its being the last major hurdle.
Excerpt: In a landmark scientific breakthrough, Quantinuum becomes the first company to demonstrate a fully fault-tolerant universal gate set with repeatable error correction, and in doing so, achieved a ten-fold improvement over current industry-leading benchmarks
Manufacturing Quantum Computers
SEALSQ, ColibriTD, and Xdigit Announce Plan to Develop a Breakthrough Quantum Computing Based Solution Set to Revolutionize Semiconductor Wafer Yields for Sub-7nm Nodes
Date: Monday, June 23, 2025
Commentary: It's always nice to have a plan for a groundbreaking breakthrough.
Excerpt: The partners have agreed on a six-month detailed roadmap to build the foundations of a groundbreaking innovation for the semiconductor industry. The solution aims to significantly improve wafer yield for advanced semiconductor designs at nodes below 7nm by addressing IR Drop issues. It features an advanced mathematical modeling of IR Drop and leverages quantum computing’s unparalleled ability to solve the resulting complex Partial Differential Equations (PDEs).
Quantum Networking
Researchers Build 11-Mile-Long Quantum Highway Using Photons
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-build-11-mile-long-quantum-highway-using-photons/
Author: Luke Auburn
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025
Excerpt: Researchers at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have recently linked their campuses using an experimental quantum communications network built with two optical fibers. In a new paper published in Optica Quantum, the team introduces the Rochester Quantum Network (RoQNET), which transmits information using single photons over approximately 11 miles of fiber-optic cable at room temperature and optical wavelengths.
Sovereign Initiatives
Tech innovators backed to set up and scale up in Britain through Industrial Strategy
Date: Monday, June 23, 2025
Excerpt: Innovators driving future technologies like quantum computers to deliver new life-saving medicines and semiconductors powering the next generation of mobile phones are being backed by well over £1 billion to set up and scale up their businesses in Britain, Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has announced.
Investment will include landmark funding for the UK’s mission to develop quantum computers that could unearth game-changing discoveries for our health and environment, the establishment of a new national semiconductor centre laser-focused on helping firms to scale-up, and new backing for engineering biology researchers working on everything from new vaccines to eco-friendly fuels.
IBM and RIKEN Unveil First IBM Quantum System Two Outside of the U.S.
Date: Monday, June 23, 2025
Excerpt: IBM & RIKEN unveiled the 1st IBM Quantum System Two ever to be deployed outside of the US & beyond an IBM Quantum Data Center. The availability of this system marks a milestone as the 1st quantum computer to be co-located w/RIKEN's supercomputer Fugaku.
Conferences
Apply today to IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025
https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/qdc-application-2025
Authors: Aaliyah Fowler and Robert Davis
Date: Monday, June 30, 2025
Excerpt: This means that quantum hardware and software providers like IBM® must continue pushing the state of the art while enterprise and academic researchers explore the most promising use cases. As part of our commitment to facilitating that collaboration, we are pleased to announce the second-annual IBM Quantum Developer Conference. The event kicks off with an evening welcome reception on 11 November followed by three days of programming from 12-14 November 2025, all taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Interested in attending this year’s event? Apply today to secure your spot.
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