OQC Announces $100 Million Series B, Availability of OQC Toshiko
Insider Brief OQC announces at the Global Investment Summit that SBI Investment, Japan’s premier VC fund, is leading OQC’s $100 million round. The company also announced the public availability of OQC Toshiko, an enterprise-ready quantum computing platform. OQC says funding will pave the way for R&D to bring enterprise-ready quantum to businesses globally. PRESS RELEASE […]
Multiverse Computing Wins Innovate UK Funding to Improve Flood Risk Assessment With Quantum Algorithms
Insider Brief Multiverse Computing, Moody’s Analytics and Oxford Quantum Circuits have won funding from Innovate UK to use quantum methods to develop large-scale flood prediction models. Multiverse Computing is the lead contractor and software provider for the project. The UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is overseeing the project and will be the […]
OQC and CogniFrame Partner to Let Experts and Non-Experts Test Drive Quantum
Insider Brief OQC and CogniFrame are working together on a way to allow people — regardless of skills and knowledge — to experiment with quantum. FirstQ will be the world’s first plug-and-play quantum application store accessed via desktop apps. This partnership will enable the creation and hosting of pre-curated hybrid and quantum-only use cases optimized […]
Spanish Supercomputer Center Selects OQC and Fujitsu to Install Quantum Computer
Insider Brief The Spanish Supercomputer Center, CESGA ,and Fujitsu today signed an agreement to establish a quantum knowledge center in Galicia, Spain. The center’s mission is to accelerate joint research using quantum computing technologies and to promote the development of the quantum industry both on a regional and international level. As part of this plan, […]
Oxford Quantum Circuits Installing Quantum Computer in Equinix IBX Data Center
Insider Brief OQC aims to make one of the most powerful quantum computers available commercially to businesses worldwide via Equinix‘s TY11 Tokyo International Business Exchange data center. TQI has predicted that quantum computers will become part of the modern high performance computing data center. This news shows OQC is a jump ahead in this future […]
6 Companies Developing Superconducting Qubits
The development of quantum computing is expected to be promising for the tech industry, with many companies vying to be at the forefront of this novel technology. Superconducting qubits, we should mention, are a cornerstone of quantum computing that may allow for more powerful calculations than ever before. Here we take a look at six […]
Oxford Quantum Circuits Partners with Cyxtera to Improve Accessibility to Quantum Computers
Insider Brief: Oxford Quantum Circuits and Cyxtera report that customers will soon have access to quantum computing-as-a-service through Cyxtera’s Reading Data Center Campus LHR3. The partnership is labeled a “world’s first” integration of a quantum computer in a colocation data center. OQC will also join the Cyxtera ecosystem of service providers and will have its […]
TQI Exclusive: SparQ to Fire Up Quantum Readiness in the UK
SparQ is set to accelerate UK innovation in the use of quantum computing, according to the program’s organizers and partners. The program, developed by the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), will help UK-based companies and researchers in the early exploration of applications for quantum computing. The NQCC recently announced it will team up with Oxford […]
13 Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Software Services
Initially formulated for researchers, engineers and other experts to gain access to the prohibitively expensive quantum hardware at no cost or — at the very least, something affordable — cloud services have now taken on a life of their own, allowing even a quantum enthusiast with a laptop in their bedroom access to (early stage) quantum processing. What is […]
13 Companies Working With Superconducting Quantum Computing in 2022
Having already gone through several popular qubit modalities already, The Quantum Insider is now moving on to some of the companies whose money is bet on superconducting electronic circuits being the best way of developing a fully functional, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The thirteen companies listed, giant corporations and startups alike, are led by some […]