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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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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, … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum Elements and USC researchers published a Nature Communications paper demonstrating surface-code scaling and logical qubits on IBM Heron processors with a heavy-hex architecture. The researchers combined a depth-efficient surface code with dynamical decoupling to reduce idle-time noise and achieve below-threshold performance as the code distance increased. The results suggest surface-code error correction … Read more

Insider Brief ParityQC has launched the Parity Twine Optimizer as a product through the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, offering a 30-day free trial to IBM Quantum Network members. The optimizer uses ParityQC’s Parity Twine Compilation technology to reduce gate count, circuit depth and two-qubit gate overhead for quantum optimization problems. The hardware-independent compiler supports different … Read more

Insider Brief Zapata Quantum CEO Sumit Kapur has been selected for The Boston Business Journal’s 2026 Power 50: Movement Makers. The annual list recognizes leaders selected through community nominations and the publication’s editorial process for contributions to business, economic prosperity and community well-being in Greater Boston. Kapur has led Zapata through a restructuring focused on … Read more

Insider Brief Central New Mexico Community College is joining Sandia National Laboratories and other partners in the CAMINO Collaborative to expand advanced-manufacturing workforce training in New Mexico. CNM plans to develop a facility on a 37-acre site near Sandia’s Science & Technology Park, bringing education, workforce training, research, entrepreneurship and industry together. The site will … Read more

Insider Brief Mitsubishi Electric’s ME Innovation Fund has invested in OptQC, a Japanese startup developing optical quantum computer hardware, marking the fund’s 16th investment. OptQC, founded from technology developed at the University of Tokyo’s Furusawa Laboratory, has developed an optical quantum computer architecture designed to limit system-size growth as qubit counts increase. Mitsubishi Electric plans … Read more

Insider Brief ATLAS researchers found strong evidence of quantum entanglement between pairs of short-lived Z bosons produced by Higgs boson decays at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The team inferred the Z bosons’ spins by analyzing the angles of the electrons and muons produced when the bosons decayed. The findings provide one of the highest-energy confirmations … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum Elements and USC demonstrated that surface codes can improve error protection on IBM Heron processors despite a mismatch between the code’s square-grid design and the hardware’s heavy-hex layout. The researchers combined a depth-efficient surface code with dynamical decoupling to suppress errors that accumulated while qubits were idle. The results suggest quantum processors … Read more