Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
Diraq and Dell Technologies Test Hybrid Quantum-HPC Computing in Sydney
Diraq, a Sydney-based developer of silicon spin-qubit quantum processors, and Dell Technologies announced a technical collaboration to integrate Diraq’s silicon quantum processing units with classical high-performance computing (HPC) and AI server infrastructure. Dell has deployed a dedicated HPC server cluster directly inside Diraq’s Sydney laboratory, physically co-located with the quantum hardware to enable low-latency, real-time control loops between the two systems. Diraq Founder and CEO Andrew Dzurak and Dell Global CTO John Roese said early work will focus on hybrid workflow orchestration — automating qubit calibration, tuning and near-term error correction — with target applications spanning large-scale optimization, supply-chain logistics, financial modeling and AI-accelerated drug discovery. Because Diraq’s qubits are fabricated with standard CMOS semiconductor processes, the partners argue the architecture could integrate into commercial data centers more readily than other quantum hardware platforms.
Source: HPCwire
IBM Cuts Quantum Error-Mitigation Overhead 63-Fold With New “Spacetime” Method
IBM Quantum researchers introduced Spacetime Probabilistic Error Cancellation (Spacetime PEC), a hybrid error-handling framework that layers probabilistic error cancellation on top of post-selected quantum error detection. By modeling faults according to both where and when they occur in a circuit, the technique catches surviving errors that simple post-selection misses. Tested on IBM’s 27-qubit heavy-hex “ibm_aachen” superconducting processor running a transverse-field Ising model simulation, the combined approach cut estimated sampling overhead by up to 63 times compared with error mitigation alone — 3.7x at two Trotter steps, 15.9x at four, and 63x at six. The result establishes a continuous path between near-term error mitigation and full fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Source: IBM Quantum
GlobalFoundries Finalizes $375M CHIPS Act Award for Quantum Chip R&D
GlobalFoundries and the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized a $375 million award under the CHIPS Act (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act, administered via the CHIPS Research and Development Office) to expand the company’s Quantum Technology Solutions unit. GlobalFoundries is eligible for the funding over five years, tied to milestones, and will direct it toward cryogenic CMOS technologies, advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration — aiming to help quantum computing companies move from prototyping to commercial-scale manufacturing on U.S. soil. The company separately has a $300 million letter of intent with the same CHIPS office to accelerate silicon-photonics research.
Source: GlobalFoundries
Fortaegis Technologies Raises $50M Series A for Quantum-Safe Secure Compute
Amsterdam-based Fortaegis Technologies closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series A round led by returning investor Serendipity Capital, with strategic backing from TEL Venture Capital (the venture arm of Tokyo Electron), ASML, TNO and Prodrive Technologies, alongside several additional venture investors. The company’s hardware-rooted Secure Compute architecture extracts cryptographic entropy from microscopic manufacturing variations in silicon to generate quantum-resistant encryption keys on demand, without storing keys permanently on-chip — addressing both AI-workload security and post-quantum “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Fortaegis, chaired by Quantinuum founder Ilyas Khan, will use the funds to scale FPGA deployment and advance a custom ASIC pipeline for data-center, defense and telecom customers.
Source: Fortaegis Technologies
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