GlobalFoundries received a $375 million R&D award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The funding is intended to expand its Quantum Technology Solutions business and build out domestic quantum chip manufacturing capacity.
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Within two years, this could give U.S. photonic quantum computing startups access to production-scale silicon photonics fabrication at GlobalFoundries, reducing their reliance on small research fabs.
Quantum Foundry Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation announced plans for a 5,300 square metre quantum chip fabrication facility in Copenhagen. The planned site is intended to support the design, manufacture, and scaling of next-generation quantum chips, with the stated goal of strengthening Europe's position in quantum technology.
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If the facility can secure cleanroom equipment and staff quickly, European quantum hardware developers could begin using domestic test-chip runs within two years, reducing turnaround dependence on overseas foundries.
otherNovo Nordisk FoundationQuantum Foundry Copenhagen Quantum Foundry Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation announced plans to build a 5,300 square metre quantum chip fabrication facility in Copenhagen, expected to be operational by 2027. The facility is intended to offer commercial wafer fabrication, characterization, assembly, and packaging services, linking academic research with industrial manufacturing.
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If the Copenhagen facility opens as planned, European quantum hardware developers could iterate on chip designs faster by using integrated commercial fabrication, characterization, assembly, and packaging in one location instead of relying on scattered research cleanrooms.
otherNovo Nordisk FoundationQuantum Foundry Copenhagen The Novo Nordisk Foundation is backing Quantum Foundry Copenhagen to establish a 5,300 square metre quantum chip fabrication facility in Copenhagen. The new site is intended to develop advanced manufacturing equipment and strengthen Europe's quantum chip design and manufacturing capacity.
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The facility's equipment-development programme could begin validating specialized quantum chip manufacturing tools for European research fabs within two years, before the Copenhagen site reaches full production.
otherNovo Nordisk FoundationQuantum Foundry Copenhagen New Mexico has announced a state matching-funds programme for organisations involved in DARPA quantum computing projects. The initiative appears linked to DARPA's quantum benchmarking activities, as reported by The Quantum Insider.
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If matching funds lower the effective cost of DARPA quantum benchmarking work in New Mexico, this could attract more teams to establish test and evaluation activity in the state within the next two years.
otherDARPANew Mexico Economic Development Department Quintessent closed a $40 million Series A round. The company also began sampling its dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) comb laser, a new light source intended for AI clusters.
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Within two years, Quintessent's DWDM comb laser could move from sampling into co-packaged optics deployments for AI accelerators, increasing interconnect bandwidth density without a proportional rise in power.
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking approved Decision No. 31/2026, selecting 13 European quantum computing startups for its Quantum Grand Challenge call. The selected companies will receive Phase 1 Coordination and Support Action funding as a preliminary milestone. The funding is intended to support establishment of technical proof-of-concepts.
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This could enable European supercomputing centres to benchmark proof-of-concept QPUs from the selected startups against common EuroHPC integration requirements within two years, narrowing the field for follow-on host procurements.
otherEuroHPC Joint Undertaking Princeton University will lead a new institute funded by the National Science Foundation. The institute, backed by $27.9M, will focus on quantum processor manufacturing.
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Within two years, the institute could establish shared fabrication and metrology processes for at least one qubit platform, giving academic groups and startups access to multi-project wafer runs instead of building bespoke cleanroom processes.
otherNational Science FoundationPrinceton University EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has opened six quantum calls with a combined €119 million in funding. The launch was reported by HPCwire on 24 August 2026.
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The funding could enable at least one European HPC centre to commission a quantum accelerator integrated with a classical supercomputer within two years.
otherEuroHPC Joint Undertaking Researchers at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have designed a qubit architecture that uses electrons floating above a chip rather than confined in a semiconductor material. The design was reported by Quantum Zeitgeist on 21 August 2026. No experimental demonstration was described in the report.
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The floating-electron design could lead to a working qubit prototype with longer coherence times than comparable silicon spin qubits within two years.
otherFAMU-FSU College of Engineering Researchers demonstrated quantum kernel learning applied directly to quantum data on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum processor. The work extends quantum kernel methods beyond classical data inputs, using NMR to prepare and classify quantum states. The experiment is reported in an arXiv preprint.
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This could make NMR testbeds a practical platform for benchmarking quantum-data kernel classifiers on few-qubit systems within two years.
A paper posted to arXiv describes a GPU implementation of mixed quantum-classical Liouville molecular dynamics that avoids the momentum jump approximation. The method targets nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations and is presented as a route to larger systems and longer timescales.
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If the GPU code is released and validated, this could make mixed quantum-classical Liouville dynamics practical for simulating condensed-phase photochemical reactions over picosecond timescales within the next two years.
A paper on arXiv quant-ph studies how the resource of magic (non-stabilizerness) spreads under unitary Clifford dynamics. Clifford operations alone cannot create magic, but the research investigates the redistribution of existing magic in a many-body system, characterizing the spreading behavior.
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Insights into magic spreading could improve classical simulation algorithms by predicting when states become hard to simulate, aiding the benchmarking of near-term quantum devices.
UCLA has secured a $4 million grant to develop a 60-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer.
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The grant could enable UCLA to demonstrate a small-scale fault-tolerant quantum processor with 10 logical qubits within two years, leveraging existing hardware and error correction expertise.
Israel has issued a national tender for a quantum computer, as part of a broader strategy to achieve AI sovereignty. The tender seeks a partner to deliver and possibly operate the system, emphasizing integration with Israel's AI research ecosystem.
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If the tender results in a near-term superconducting or trapped-ion installation, Israeli defense and academic AI labs could begin running hybrid quantum-classical machine learning experiments on sovereign infrastructure within two years, potentially accelerating autonomous systems R&D.
otherIsrael Innovation Authority Researchers have used a quantum computer to simulate Stark many-body localization in a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model, observing the persistence of localization in the presence of a tilted potential. The simulation demonstrates control over a many-body localized phase without relying on disorder.
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Insights from this simulation could inform the design of quantum memories that exploit Stark many-body localization to protect quantum information, with potential implementation on existing hardware in the near term.
Researchers at University College London have demonstrated a quantum circuit that compresses flow-based surrogate models to fewer than 100 parameters. The technique aims to dramatically reduce the complexity of these models, which are commonly used in scientific simulations.
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This compression method could enable quantum machine learning models to run efficiently on near-term quantum processors, accelerating hybrid quantum-classical workflows for physics simulations.
IonQ has completed the acquisition of SkyWater Technology, a U.S.-based semiconductor foundry, bringing the manufacturing of its trapped-ion quantum processor chips in-house.
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IonQ leverages SkyWater's existing semiconductor infrastructure to rapidly prototype and produce next-generation ion traps, shortening development cycles and improving qubit stability.