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Five developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.

Infleqtion and Cisco Partner to Advance Networked Quantum Computing

Infleqtion and Cisco announced a collaboration on September 10 to pursue joint research toward connecting, operating and scaling quantum systems. The partnership pairs Infleqtion’s neutral-atom quantum processing units, atomic clocks and quantum memory modules with Cisco Quantum Labs’ software-defined networking stack and switches, aiming to interconnect heterogeneous quantum devices into larger distributed computing clusters. Cisco has also introduced the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch, a research prototype designed to route quantum information between systems, and both companies plan to detail the work further at the Quantum World Congress later this month.

Source: Infleqtion

Chalmers Physicists Make Bosonic Quantum Operations Over 1,000 Times Faster

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a control scheme, published in Physical Review Letters, that performs a range of operations on bosonic quantum states within a single driving cycle instead of thousands of repeated steps — making some operations more than 1,000 times faster. The method, combining quantum lattice gates with Floquet control, is designed to work on existing superconducting quantum circuit platforms and could reduce the error exposure of quantum operations, a key hurdle on the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing. The team, led by authors Tangyou Huang, Lei Du and Lingzhen Guo, says it is already discussing experimental demonstrations with colleagues at Chalmers.

Source: arXiv preprint

Quantum Motion Closes Second Tranche of Series C, Adds DARPA Benchmarking Role

UK-based Quantum Motion announced on September 3 the second close of its Series C funding round, adding new investment from Imec.ventures, Lansdowne Partners, Sony Innovation Fund, S3 Ventures and Inkef. The fresh capital will fund custom silicon co-development, tap global semiconductor manufacturing pipelines, and support Quantum Motion’s international expansion — including a new U.S. lab in Maryland’s Discovery District and participation in Stage B of DARPA‘s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The round builds on the company’s original $160 million Series C announced in May.

Source: Quantum Motion

Altera and Riverlane Bring Quantum Error Correction Support to Agilex FPGAs

Altera and Riverlane announced a partnership on September 10 to help quantum hardware developers build more flexible control and error-correction systems using Altera’s Agilex FPGAs. Riverlane validated its QEC Interface (QECi) design on an Altera Agilex 7 FPGA and published the design in its open-source QECi repository, aiming to support low-latency data exchange between quantum control and error-correction systems. Riverlane has also joined the Altera Solutions Acceleration Partner Program (ASAP).

Source: HPCwire

QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore Series A1 for Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity

Bengaluru-based QNu Labs announced on September 9 a ₹200 crore (about $21 million) Series A1 funding round led by India’s National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund, Gaja Capital and Artha Ventures. The round brings QNu Labs’ total funding to ₹375 crore and will fund R&D, sales expansion, and the company’s contribution to a government-backed project to build the technology backbone of India’s Quantum Secure and Sensing Networks.

Source: The Quantum Insider

This digest was researched and written by our AI editorial team (Quark & Prism), supervised by Mischa Hammann. More at our Team page. Not investment advice.