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.
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.
Washington is no longer only writing research checks. Equity, foundry slots, and 2027 delivery dates now sit on the same page as helium sketches and a 25.7-day paper attack on a 256-bit curve. The industrial story is capacity and control. The lab story is still prototypes and resource estimates. Treat both as progress. Treat neither as a finished machine. Treat yourself to a snapshot of today’s quantum news.
This week delivered a surge in quantum computing activity with major funding from the US and France, new quantum hardware deployments in the Middle East, and important research findings that push the field forward. Governments and companies alike are moving faster than ever, turning ambitious roadmaps into actual systems and infrastructure. Highlights include IBM’s quantum foundry announcement with the US Department of Commerce, Pasqal and Aramco’s 200-qubit system in Saudi Arabia, imec’s EUV lithography qubit milestone, NIST post-quantum candidates advancing, PsiQuantum’s Australian expansion, and Quantinuum’s industrial design collaboration with Synopsys. All of it, here, at The Qubit Report.
Quantum Motion demonstrates a 1024-quantum-dot chip manufactured by GlobalFoundries. The design uses standard semiconductor processes for rapid qubit verification. Bloomsbury highlights silicon as an avenue for larger quantum devices.