One 2026 quantum prediction is that it will to be the year when useful logical qubit based quantum computers will appear (dealt with prudently by Riverlane and Innovation Origins). In a sense, it would mark an irreversible transition from NISQ to FTQC. Here, vendors face a complexity challenge not only to deliver what’s in their roadmaps […]

Nous voici dans le 78ième épisode de Quantum, le mensuel de l’actualité quantique en France et dans le monde, toujours avec moi-même et Fanny Bouton d’OVHCloud. Au menu de ce mois, des événements dans des endroits inattendus, des conférences scientifiques de haut vol, les actualités de Quobly, Quandela, SQC, PsiQuantum, Scaleway, Quantinuum, sur la correction […]

In November 2025, Quantinuum released its Helios QPU with 98 qubits. It also announced it was sold to Singapore as part of a partnership with A*Star and to be deployed there in 2026. Helios got less attention than the recent news coming from Google (Willow, Echoes) and Microsoft (Majorana 1) but it deserves it. It […]

Ce 73 ième épisode de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique, fête les 6 années de ce podcast. Avec Fanny Bouton, nous faisons comme d’habitude le point sur l’actualité quantique. Voici la version texte et les liens utiles du podcast: Sortie de la 8ième édition de Understanding Quantum Technologies Comme le nouvel iPhone sorti il […]

Dans ce 71e épisode de Quantum toujours animé par Fanny Bouton d’OVHcloud et moi-même, nous faisons le tour des événements où nous étions ou dont nous avons entendu parler, puis de l’actualité en France et dans le monde, avec notamment des news de Quobly, Quandela, Pasqal, IonQ, IBM, OQC et QuEra. Evénements ICQE à Padova […]

Understanding quantum computing’s pace of progress is not an easy task. Recent months have complicated it with contradictory messages. CEOs like Jensen Huang (Nvidia) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) estimated that useful quantum computers were decades away, while others like Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Sundar Pichai (Google) cast it as being just years from now. Some […]

Microsoft captured quantum news headlines on February 19, 2025 by publishing an arXiv blueprint for its future fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) using Majorana fermions, a Nature paper about the measurement of Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) in a chip containing the equivalent of half a physical topological qubit, and then a press release summarizing the whole and introducing […]

On December 9th 2024, Google made the news with announcing its 105-qubit superconducting Willow chip, with some more details here. It was linked to the release of a new Nature paper on this chip and extravagant claims about this quantum computer’s ability to solve some specific problem in a couple minutes, that would take 10^25 years […]

Here is Understanding Quantum technologies 2024, the 7th edition of this book and the fourth in English. It is always a free to download book, without any questions asked (no email, no profiling). It reaches 1,554 pages, split in five volumes for e-readers and a paperback edition is available since November 10th on many Amazon sites. […]