Quantum Computing

• [New] The overall quantum computing market is projected to grow to $1.7 B by 2026, at a CAGR of 30.2% by analysts at MarketandMarkets.
• [New] In the next decade, quantum computation will become a very disruptive technology in many areas, including in several crucial defense applications.
• [New] The RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center will see the development of hardware and software technologies to realise a quantum computer with as many as 1,000 qubits and develop applications using a prototype quantum computer.
• [New] IBM and Cleveland Clinic said they will focus on training a workforce on data science and quantum computing, with research priorities of analyzing viral genomes and vaccine development.
• [New] Quantum computers pose an impending threat to secure communications, and continued U.S. dominance in quantum information science helps mitigate the risks.
• [New] A mainstream quantum computer is still some way off, but researchers anticipate some sort of industrial-sized machine in the next decade.
• Rather than replacing current computer architectures, IBM is betting that quantum computers will gain traction in the coming years by taking on very specific tasks that are offloaded from a classic computing system to a quantum platform.
• In the next 10 years, things once considered science fiction will become science fact, from augmented reality and artificial intelligence (AI) to quantum computing.
• Riken and Fujitsu will develop hardware and software technologies to realize a quantum computer with as many as 1000 qubits and develop applications using a prototype quantum computer.
• In the next two or three years companies will begin to make major changes and advances in software and software development to exploit quantum computing and speed up their workflows.
• The Discovery Accelerator will leverage IBM's multi-year roadmap for advancing quantum computing, bringing its revolutionary capabilities into the hands of scientists and professionals in healthcare and life sciences.
• The researchers at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, WACQT, have the goal to build a quantum computer based on superconducting circuits with at least 100 well-functioning qubits performing correct calculations by 2030.
• Over the coming year, Oxford Ionics will be bringing its first generation of quantum computers online and demonstrating the scalability of its technology.
• On a more pragmatic level, atomtronic SQUIDs could offer highly sensitive rotation sensors or perform calculations as part of quantum computers.
• We moved quantum computing closer to the horizon in the 2021 Life Sciences Radar and expect it to become widely adopted across life sciences in the next three years and become a mainstream technology in five years.
• The researchers at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, WACQT, have the goal to build a quantum computer - based on superconducting circuits - with at least 100 well-functioning qubits, performing correct calculations by 2030.
• IonQ has revealed its plan to build modular quantum computers by 2023 as part of its five-year roadmap.
• The world's leading powers are racing to develop and deploy emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, that could shape everything from the economic and military balance among states to the future of work, wealth and inequality within them.
• Chinese scientists will achieve high-precision manipulation of qubits, or quantum bits, the basic unit of quantum information, paving the way for the creation of programmable, universal quantum computing applications.
• The new quantum computing applications will be launched in the next two years.
• The annual spending on R&D will dedicate mainly to key technology sector that China aims to boost including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cloud computing, brain science, semiconductors, genetic research and biotechnology.

Last updated: 18 April 2021