Today’s Brief Commentary:
With the APS Global Physics Summit, NVIDIA GTC, and the Synopsys Executive Forum all in California last week, my attention turns to New York this week. I will do a short follow-up newsletter with my upcoming events (3 in 4 weeks) and some podcasts that have come out recently.
Meanwhile, this newsletter pulls together some of the top announcements from last week. I’ve tried to add more commentary to the individual links and will continue to do so.
All the links are interesting, but I want to bring to your attention two categories: Quantum Infrastructure and Components and Quantum Networking. For all our (and my) talk about qubits, the adjacent technologies will turn QPUs into systems. I recall a VC on a panel I moderated at Quantum.Tech London say that you should look beyond the qubit companies to the necessary infrastructure when investing.
My thanks to Noel Goddard, CEO of Qunnect, for this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, which sums up nicely how I feel today:
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
My plane returning from California was hit by lightning about 15 minutes before landing in Philadelphia. There was no damage to the passengers or the plane, as far as I know.
Don’t forget to check out and bookmark my new sortable list of upcoming quantum technology conferences.
Contents
Management Changes and Announcements
Pasqal Announces a New Management Structure with the Appointment of Loïc Henriet as CEO and Wasiq Bokhari as Executive Chairman | Pasqal
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Commentary: It’s stressful and personally challenging, but startups (and even big companies) have to make the necessary changes to advance to the next level.
Excerpt: Quantum computing is entering a phase where it is demonstrating its ability to handle industrial use cases more efficiently than even the most advanced classical technologies. This phase signals the industrial-scale adoption of these technologies, a trend for which Pasqal is preparing itself as it seeks to reinforce its position as a global leader. In this context, Pasqal announces a new management structure that will accelerate the development and deployment of its technology.
Quantum Computing
Equal1 Launches Bell-1: The First Quantum System Purpose-Built for the HPC Era
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2025
Commentary: Pro – Architecture to integrate with HPC, because many of the early Practical Quantum Advantage use cases will require that. Con – SIX qubits.
Excerpt: Equal1 today unveils Bell-1, the first quantum system purpose-built for the HPC era. Unlike first-generation quantum computers that demand dedicated rooms, infrastructure, and complex cooling systems, Bell-1 is designed for direct deployment in HPC-class environments. As a rack-mountable quantum node, it integrates directly alongside classical compute—as compact as a GPU server, yet exponentially more powerful for the world’s hardest problems. Bell-1 is engineered to eliminate the traditional barriers of cost, infrastructure, and complexity, setting a new benchmark for scalable quantum computing integration.
IQM Quantum wants to be the European answer to Google and IBM | Sifted
https://sifted.eu/articles/iqm-quantum-taking-on-big-tech
Author: Miriam Partington
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Excerpt: Jan Goetz, the CEO of Finnish-German startup IQM Quantum Computers, has a bold vision: to be the “European answer to the Googles, IBMs, Fujitsus and Huaweis when it comes to quantum.” The seven-year old company has a two-pronged approach to achieving its chief’s ambition. One side of its business builds full-stack, superconducting quantum computers and manufactures the chips to put in them; the other sells quantum compute time through the cloud.
NVIDIA to Build Accelerated Quantum Computing Research Center
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-build-accelerated-quantum-computing-research-center
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Commentary: Raise your hand if you don’t think NVIDIA wants to be the center of gravity for quantum computing.
Excerpt: NVIDIA today announced it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing. The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center, or NVAQC, will integrate leading quantum hardware with AI supercomputers, enabling what is known as accelerated quantum supercomputing. The NVAQC will help solve quantum computing’s most challenging problems, ranging from qubit noise to transforming experimental quantum processors into practical devices.
Reveal of OrangeQS Juice closed beta at APS Global Physics Summit 2025
https://orangeqs.com/news/reveal-orangeqs-juice/
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Commentary: I’m not sure if I agree that this is an “operating system to operate quantum systems,” but it is much closer to the idea than other examples I have seen. The phrase could certainly use some rewording!
Excerpt: Orange Quantum Systems reveals OrangeQS Juice today at the APS Global Physics Summit 2025. OrangeQS Juice is a state-of-the-art operating system to operate quantum systems and supports quantum computing research and qubit development.
OrangeQS Juice will be open-sourced and available for the community by the end of 2025. A closed beta starts with the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Berkeley Lab, Chalmers Next Labs, the DiCarlo Lab at QuTech and other leading institutes. This closed beta will provide feedback and shape final features.
The Invisible Stage: Quantum’s Displacement in NVIDIA GTC’s World of Spectacle | The Quantum Insider
Author: Cierra Choucair
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Commentary: You can apologize for making a prediction in the first place, but you need not apologize for the content of the prediction until you are proven wrong.
Excerpt: NVIDIA’s inaugural Quantum Day event was not in the center of the GTC exhibits—not nestled among the AI-powered fairy-tale-like robots drawing human caricatures, the robots conducting remote surgeries, or the autonomous Lucids oiled up and prompting onlookers for test drives. It was blocks away, in the San Jose Civic Center, a building whose ornate balconies and historic architecture stood in contrast to the glinting future inside the Convention Center halls. It evoked a sense of tradition, of the long arc of progress. And perhaps, unintentionally, it echoed a central tension in the quantum computing field: how do we make something inherently abstract feel tangible
Quantum Infrastructure and Components
Quantum Infrastructure Company | Vescent Technologies, Inc.
https://russfein.substack.com/p/quantum-infrastructure-company-vescent
Author: Russ Fein
Date: Friday, March 21, 2025
Excerpt: Vescent Technologies, Inc. (“Vescent” or the “Company”) is a quantum infrastructure company providing enabling products to nearly all companies and researchers in the broad quantum ecosystem. Understanding Vescent, its products and the markets it serves, can help inform readers about some of the broader dynamics of the quantum industry.
ULVAC Developing Next-Generation Dilution Refrigerator for Quantum Computing by 2026
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2025
Commentary: Also see similar offerings from BlueFors Oy, FormFactor, Maybell Quantum Industries, Oxford Instruments, and Montana Instruments.
Excerpt: ULVAC, Inc. and ULVAC CRYOGENICS INC. announced that they are developing a next-generation dilution refrigerator for quantum computers with imput from IBM. This product will provide a cryogenic environment essential for the stable operation of quantum computers, and it also promotes technological development and collaboration with research institutions and enterprises. While cooling systems from overseas manufacturers currently dominate Japan’s market, ULVAC is establishing a domestic production framework to support the advancement of research and development in the country.
Quantum Networking
Welinq Launches Its World-Record Storage Solution for Quantum Computing Scale-Out
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Commentary: Also see work done by Nu Quantum, Qunnect, and IonQ / Qubitekk.
Excerpt: Welinq, a leader in quantum networking technology, has launched the first commercial quantum memory designed specifically for quantum data centers with world-record performance. Quantum computing is reaching a turning point: with more than 100 individual quantum computers deployed in dedicated infrastructures, the next challenge is networking them into scalable, high-performance architectures.
MIT develops breakthrough quantum interconnect for scalable computing | Tech Explorist
https://www.techexplorist.com/breakthrough-quantum-interconnect-scalable-computing/98047/
Author: Amit Malewar
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Excerpt: A novel superconducting waveguide enables “all-to-all” communication between quantum processors, paving the way for reliable, distributed quantum computing.
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