QWC 2026 starts a three-day run at The Hotel at the University of Maryland, with Day 1 built around an international forum, bootcamps, a startup pitch, and an official happy hour from the newest Discovery District neighbor.
IonQ will put a Superion 256 at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center, with reporting pointing to a 2027 install next to a GB200 NVL72. Microsoft opened 15,000 square feet in Discovery District Maryland for Majorana 2 tests with DARPA, while a six-consortium survey found 90 percent of quantum firms buy at least one part abroad. Click for the QICK makerspace, the 104 NGCC findings, and the gas-network run on Forte-1.
Global Quantum Industry Group opened in April 2026 as an ISIG initiative for quantum computing, sensing, and networking infrastructure. The first Sunnyvale summit ran April 23, 2026 under GQIG Chair Amy Leong; GQIG Quantum Infra Summit EU follows October 1-2, 2026 at imec in Leuven. Membership is C-level only and is built around supply-chain access, deal flow, and policy rooms rather than conference abstracts.
IonQ is sending a Superion 256 and silicon-vacancy memory to South Korea and posted a real-time decoder benchmarked at 408 logical qubits on one CPU. Microsoft opened a 15,000-square-foot Maryland center and is giving Majorana 2 chips to DARPA, while QuEra signed HPE for on-prem Cray integration. Click for the contract vehicles, lab rates, and the October 22 crypto clock.
South Korea sets dual-track qubit targets for 2029, IonQ will supply its first Superion 256 system and silicon-vacancy memory module to South Korea, and post-quantum frameworks move from paper into national assessment tools and identity apps. See it all and more in today’s wrap up.
: Taiwan is moving closer to a request for proposal on a national hybrid quantum computer with a 150-qubit floor at the Tainan Cloud Computing Center. A February 2026 NCHC information request set a five-year build, forced coupling to the NANO4 and NANO5 supercomputers, and reserved prime bids for Taiwan-based firms. The RFP text, modality choice, and official confirmation of the NT$3.76 billion figure remain the next documents to watch.
Anderon, an IBM company, finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award to scale a U.S. 300 mm quantum wafer foundry, while the Department of Energy opened the Quantum Genesis Q Competition with up to $215 million aimed at 100 logical qubits. EPB switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise in Chattanooga, and IQM booked South America’s first on-prem system for Brazil’s Eldorado Institute. Click through for Riverlane’s microsecond QEC loop, Infleqtion’s 5.4-to-1 encoding construction, Quobly’s industrial silicon gates, and Thales Luna 8. And much more.
Anderon finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award for its Albany 300-millimeter quantum foundry as IBM stacked another $1 billion behind the same line. The same cycle closed a real-time QEC loop inside 12 microseconds, put constrained compilers on IBM’s catalog, and opened a Department of Energy contest worth up to $215 million for 100 logical qubits. Commercial terms, latency tables, survey splits, and the four PQC clocks that still disagree are in the links. Get all of this and more in today’s The Qubit Report.
IQM signed a purchase agreement on to put an IQM Spark at Brazil’s Eldorado Research Institute in Campinas in the first quarter of 2027. The deal is IQM’s first South America delivery and adds remote access to a 54-qubit European cloud system. More details inside.
Anderon, an IBM company, finalized a $1 billion U.S. CHIPS award for its Albany 300-millimeter quantum wafer foundry, matched by another $1 billion from IBM. The same news cycle closed a real-time error-correction control loop, put compilers on IBM’s catalog, and showed spin-qubit gates on a commercial FD-SOI chip. The wrap-up collects the contracts, latency numbers, survey results, and PQC deadlines the board will ask about next.