In August, Innovate UK opened a share of up to £14.3 million (about $19.3 million USD) for collaborative
projects on quantum enabled sensing and PNT. UK businesses may request £1 million to £3 million for
12 to 24 month programmes starting by December 1, 2026. The article sets out second generation
scope, the three themes, grant rates, and the September 16, 2026 close.
Qubic signed an up-to CA$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) Canadian federal contract on September 11, 2026, for nine cryogenic amplifiers. The Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream order includes KI-TWPA hardware and software, with delivery from fall 2026 and milestones due by spring 2027. The buy follows a June seed round and a May Quantum Machines sale.
The United States took minority stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of $300 million in CHIPS awards finalized this week, with GlobalFoundries separately locking $375 million for domestic quantum manufacturing. IonQ launched Superion 256, opened 2027 deliveries, and raised 2026 revenue guidance to $450 million to $460 million after closing SkyWater. Click through for Quantinuum’s Helix numbers on Helios, IonQ’s 19,397-qubit secp256k1 estimate, SandboxAQ’s MagNav hours on Lumberjack, and Cloudflare’s first ML-DSA-44 DNSSEC path.
IonQ used September 8, 2026 Investor Day to launch Superion 256, open 2027 deliveries, and raise 2026 revenue guidance to $450 million to $460 million after the SkyWater close. The same package included an $8.18 million Congruity360 quantum-safe networking agreement and a fully compiled Walking Cat estimate putting secp256k1 at 19,397 physical qubits and 25.7 days per attempt. Error-correction parameters, the 20,000-versus-19,397 qubit accounting, and the standalone-to-raised guidance bridge are in the full article.
Labs kept shrinking the photonics stack and turning microwave noise into entanglement, while governments treated GPS denial and post-quantum migration as operational work. Europe still published more than it commercialized. Japan’s NEC left the hardware race. Makes ya’wonder!?
Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending September 5, 2026 tracks factories, racks, and post-quantum links moving at the same time. Pasqal signed a multi-year quantum-safe research pact with KACST in Riyadh. Canada put CAD $195 million behind Xanadu’s Inception photonics plant. IBM published Nighthawk r2 at 120 qubits and more than 100,000 circuits per second. Diraq reserved an Equinix cage in Sydney. Quantum-safe overlays flew on Es’hail-1 and a Greece-Cyprus satellite path.
Origin Wukong tests show up to 98% single-router transmission for QRAM on the 72-qubit third-generation chip. Physical Review X reports a two-layer network at 93% transmission and 82.4% random-access fidelity, two different metrics. Partner names, TCG method, and the Tian Feng caution sit in the full report.
Sparkle and Hellas Sat have run a live quantum-safe satellite connection on a 72,000 kilometer geostationary hop between Greece and Cyprus. The trial extends Sparkle Quantum Safe Interconnect, a software post-quantum overlay on IPsec, after a March ground PoC announcement. Quotes and the commercial evaluation plan sit in the full report.
Classiq signed a Scientek go-to-market agreement and a separate Kensho market-development partnership to expand Classiq quantum software in Taiwan. Scientek will work semiconductor, research, university and government accounts; Kensho will handle introductions, local support and training, with an early focus on chemical, materials and defense buyers. SEMICON Taiwan 2026 booths, executive remarks and the Q2T follow-on context appear in the full report.
Fidelity Digital Assets published a September 1, 2026 research note on Bitcoin quantum resistance, written by Daniel Gray. The note says a future cryptographically relevant quantum computer could threaten ECDSA and Schnorr private-key control once public keys appear on chain. Readers can review the SHRINCS design, signature-size trade-offs, and the soft-fork path Fidelity outlines for holders and custodians.