Q*Bird becomes Falqon® Systems, Building the Infrastructure for Quantum Secure Networks
Insider Brief Q*Bird has transitioned to Falqon® Systems as its new corporate identity, while ownership, leadership, customer relationships and technology roadmap remain unchanged. Falqon® Systems is positioning its portfolio around Quantum Secure Networks (QSN), combining MDI-QKD, key management and network orchestration for network-scale deployments. The Delft-based company says its European-designed and manufactured infrastructure currently supports […]
Oracle Java 27 Adds Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3
Insider Brief Oracle has released Java 27 with new performance, security and developer features, including post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3. JEP 527 adds post-quantum hybrid key exchange, while JEP 538 adds PEM encoding support and JEP 536 adds in-process data redaction for Java Flight Recorder. Oracle is also previewing JDK 28 through Project […]
Iceberg Quantum and Diraq Demonstrate Pinnacle qLDPC Architecture on Spin Qubits
Insider Brief Iceberg Quantum and Diraq have demonstrated an implementation of Iceberg’s Pinnacle qLDPC architecture on Diraq’s spin-qubit hardware using NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical. The companies report that Pinnacle can target 1,000 logical qubits with 150,000 physical qubits on Diraq’s platform while maintaining its projected logical performance advantage. The work includes hardware mapping, shuttling-aware noise simulations […]
QC Design Integrates Plaquette With NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical for Hardware-Realistic QEC Simulation
Insider Brief QC Design has integrated its Plaquette design-automation platform with NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical to enable hardware-realistic simulations of lattice surgery and other fault-tolerant quantum protocols. The integration combines CUDA-Q Logical’s logical workload and QEC architecture layer with Plaquette’s device-specific noise models to assess logical protocols under physical hardware errors. In an initial simulation, QC […]
Anyon Computing Unveils NVQLink-Based Quantum Control System
Insider Brief Anyon Computing has unveiled an open-source real-time quantum control system built on NVIDIA NVQLink that integrates QPU control clusters with GPU and CPU compute nodes as co-processors within a shared supercomputing architecture. The system runs CUDA-Q, OpenQASM and QIR and is designed to support microsecond-scale quantum-classical loops for workloads including quantum error correction, […]
Oxford Quantum Startup Cloq Wins Top Prize at Reuben Entrepreneurship Forum
Insider Brief Cloq, a quantum clock startup founded by University of Oxford students, won the top prize at the fourth Reuben Entrepreneurship Forum. The team is developing a compact, low-cost quantum clock based on a University of Oxford patent involving a nitrogen atom trapped inside a buckminsterfullerene molecule. Cloq previously placed second at Oxford Edge’s […]
Quandela Publishes White Paper on Photonic QPU Integration With NVIDIA Infrastructure
Insider Brief Quandela and NVIDIA have published a technical white paper outlining an architecture for integrating Quandela’s photonic QPUs into existing AI and HPC infrastructure. The framework combines CPUs, GPUs and QPUs, with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, cuQuantum and NVQLink supporting quantum algorithm development, GPU simulation and low-latency QPU integration. The companies propose a three-step path covering […]
NSF Launches $20M Pilot for Deep-Tech Commercialization
Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $20 million in a two-year pilot led by the University of Central Florida to support commercialization of federally funded deep-technology research. The pilot will provide commercialization funding, expert mentorship, and investor connections to small businesses developing deep-technology ventures. NSF and UCF will evaluate the program to […]
Photonic Proposes CAD$500 Million Canadian Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility
Insider Brief Photonic’s proposed Project VANGUARD would establish a Canadian multi-tenant semiconductor manufacturing facility at an estimated cost of up to CAD$500 million — or about US$359 million. The facility would serve commercial and government customers in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, aerospace, defense, advanced sensing and semiconductor packaging. The project was selected for the Canada […]
BlueQubit Launches Quantum Flywheel Research Grant Program
Insider Brief BlueQubit has opened applications for its $150,000 Quantum Flywheel grant program, supported by IBM, AWS, and NVIDIA accelerated computing. The three-month program will provide selected research teams with QPU, CPU, and GPU compute access, frontier AI models, and BlueQubit’s quantum development environment. The program seeks proposals focused on quantum algorithms, classical simulation of […]