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Quantum brief week 41 2026

Podcast: Tech brief weekly · repoddit

Opublikowano: 2026-10-10

Strict US Sovereign Procurement & Benchmarking Mandates: The US Department of Energy launched the $215 million Quantum Genesis Q Competition with a rigid 2028 deadline requiring 100 logical qubits capable of error-free operation. Concurrently, DARPA advanced four hardware vendors—Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ—into Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) for empirical verification of utility-scale claims.European Stack Integration & Continental Quantum Internet: Europe's Chips Joint Undertaking is funding sovereign classical-quantum stack co-design, including the technical integration of SiPearl's Rhea1 CPUs with Quobly's silicon spin qubits. Additionally, the European Commission awarded €47.5 million to the Quantum Internet Alliance (led by TU Delft) to bui...