Germany Leads Quantum Computing Investment and Talent Gap

Last week the White House issued an executive order updating the national quantum strategy, emphasizing commercialization, supply-chain resilience, and public-private partnerships. The Department of Energy followed with its Quantum Genesis initiative, targeting a fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computer by 2028 through a new National Quantum Supercomputing User Facility and application-driven benchmarks in chemistry, materials, and physics. These moves build directly on the CHIPS Act quantum foundry commitments and private-sector roadmaps already underway. For hardware builders and researchers, the signal is clear: scaled manufacturing and fault tolerance are now national priorities with explicit timelines. #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #QuantumPolicy

Quantum computing's next breakthrough won't just come from the lab. It'll come from investors who understand the science This month's Qbit Curious newsletter Shaila Gallagher speaks to Charles Beyrouthy, Founder and Managing Director of Forma Prime, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on quantum computing and semiconductor companies. His background in chemical engineering and biochemistry, including R&D roles at Brown University, Abbott Laboratories and Dartmouth Medical School, gives him a technical lens most investors in this space don't have. Is quantum computing closer to commercial breakthrough than people think, or is the hype ahead of the timeline? 📩 Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eatDjMEV

Series: Tech Analysis Today’s Topic: Quantum computing China is one of the most active markets in quantum computing, but the biggest story is not “who has the most qubits.” The real picture is a mix of strong government support, major research activity, and a push to turn lab progress into useful systems. Chinese companies and research groups are active in superconducting, photonic, and quantum communication work, while universities and state-backed labs continue to play a central role. But the market still faces the same hard problems seen worldwide: unstable hardware, error correction, limited commercial use cases, and a gap between research success and business-scale products. China’s advantage is clear focus and long-term planning. The challenge is turning that into systems that can solve real industry problems, not just demonstrate scientific milestones. 💬 Is China closer to leading the quantum race through research strength, or will practical engineering limits slow adoption everywhere? #QuantumComputing #ChinaTech #QuantumResearch #DeepTech #EngineeringInsights #FutureOfComputing #TechAnalysis

Series: Tech Analysis Today’s Topic: Quantum computing Europe talks about quantum computing as the next big industrial advantage. The reality is more complex. The region has real strengths: strong research universities, active public funding, and a growing ecosystem in countries like Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain. Europe is also pushing hard on quantum software, sensing, communications, and hardware research. But the engineering and business challenges are still huge. Quantum machines remain difficult to scale, error correction is not solved at commercial level, and many use cases are still experimental. For most companies, the near-term value is in research partnerships, pilot projects, and quantum-safe security planning, not immediate disruption. Europe’s advantage may be patience and coordination, not speed. The question is whether that is enough to compete with faster-moving private investment elsewhere. 💬 Is Europe taking the right approach to quantum computing, or moving too slowly for a global race? #QuantumComputing #Europe #DeepTech #Engineering #TechAnalysis #Innovation #FutureTech #QuantumResearch

Great idea to produce results. Letting quantum technology sit in a lab is a bad thing. Get it out into industry as soon as possible. Thanks Paul Dabbar !

Today, building on last month’s announcement of funding $2.013 billion for two first commercial quantum foundries and seven quantum computing companies, the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced founding a new center to Drive the Manufacture of Quantum Technologies. Establishing the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC) to accelerate manufacturing of scalable, high-performance quantum components and systems to drive significant growth in the U.S. quantum industry.  “Quantum science promises to generate new knowledge and technologies that will supercharge scientific research and unlock enormous economic potential,” said Deputy Secretary of Commerce Paul Dabbar. “The new Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center will bring together top experts to ensure both continued U.S. leadership in quantum technologies and that we are the epicenter of manufacturing quantum systems at scale to drive advances in sensing, communications, encryption, computing, biomedicine and other critical areas.” https://lnkd.in/eBiC_Cpx

Today marks a new chapter for SAXON Q 🚀 — we're launching a new look for the company. It's a small thing next to the science, but it's a good moment to talk about why that science matters. People have been trying to build practical quantum computers for decades, and most still live inside a cryostat 🧊 — cooled to near absolute zero, requiring infrastructure the size of a room. That's always been the real barrier: not whether the physics works, but whether you can get it out of the lab. I've spent most of my career in semiconductor physics, and our approach at SAXON Q comes directly from that world. We build qubits from nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond 💎, placed with nanometer precision using processes the semiconductor industry already understands. The diamond protects the quantum states — so the machine runs at room temperature. No cooling. No vacuum. No shielding. It plugs into an ordinary wall socket 🔌. It's running today at DLR and Fraunhofer. Not a demonstration — hardware that works outside the conditions everyone assumed were unavoidable. There's still a great deal to do. But after this many years in the field, I'm confident this is the direction quantum computing has to go if it's ever going to be genuinely useful. New look. Same mission. ✨ Get Entangled™. #QuantumComputing #NVCenters #DeepTech #Semiconductors #RoomTemperatureQuantum

⚛️ QUANTUM COMPUTERS OUT OF THE LAB No cooling. No vacuum. No shielding. Ordinary wall-socket plug-in. = SAXON Q’s quantum computers. It's inspiring to have such innovative and forward-thinking partners in SAX-QT Quantum Saxony - Sächsisches Forschungsnetzwerk für Quantentechnologien. Congratulations to Marius Grundmann and the entire SAXON Q team for driving progress in quantum computing, demonstrating why this science matters, and transforming research prototypes into hardware that works beyond the laboratory. Making quantum computers practical, robust, and accessible is a major step toward real-world quantum technologies − and SaxonQ is helping to make that future a reality.

🇫🇷 Last Friday at @Télécom Paris: Nobel Laureate Michel Devoret explained Quantum Computing through the analogy of effects in atoms. After explaining the legacy of A. Leggett and the feasibility of macroscopic variables to behave like microscopic ones—and the power of Shor's algorithm ensuring quantum computing isn't left behind as merely an anecdotal miniature system—Devoret showed that different types of qubits can be manufactured based on LEGOs: Capacitor + Linear Inductor + Non-linear Josephson Junction (X-inductance). Today some say the last frontier has been reached—or is there another boundary to push? This changes everything we think about scaling: ✅ Google already works with MILLIONS of these elements (Transmon, Fluxonium) ✅ Each qubit lives on a sphere—not just 0 or 1, but infinite superpositions ❌ But bridging physics to industry requires solving 300k interface wires alone Like silicon transformed classical computing, there's a race to define the qubit architecture that will set the standard for the next era. Multiple French players are competing fiercely (Pasqal, Alice&Bob, Quandella, others). All scientifically brilliant. All complementary. Technical excellence is necessary—but not sufficient. The winner must also master: • Translate the 300k wires challenge into procurement-safe commitments • Turn qubit coherence metrics into CFO-friendly TCO models • Educate defense/enterprise buyers on why this architecture wins over that one And the clock is already ticking: technology is already anticipating encryption needs, with datacenters now moving toward post-quantum cryptography. The commercial race started before the science was even finished. The science is here in full effervescence. The market engine is what comes next. These are the challenges that will determine who crosses the finish line first. #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #France #CommercialStrategy #ScienceToBusiness #FirstMoverAdvantage

SLAC Quantum Dots Aim for Mass-Producible Qubits 𒁈 At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientist Shannon Harvey is tackling one of quantum computing’s biggest hurdles: creating qubits that can be manufactured at scale. 𒁈 Harvey focuses on quantum dots, a type of qubit uniquely suited for mass production, demanding both precision and a creative approach to manipulating information. 𒁈 These aren’t your typical bits of data; manipulating these “zero-dimensional, information-carrying ripples in quantum space” requires a surprising blend of “mental and manual dexterity.” Harvey said that what she loves about working in quantum information is the ability to use today’s technologies to explore nature’s quantum features, something that until recently would have seemed incredible. 𒁈 As a collaborator with the DOE’s Q-NEXT research center, Harvey’s work aims to harness these quantum features for advancements ranging from drug discovery to secure communication. See Article In the Comments #QuantumHardware #QuantumResearchNews #QuantumComputing #Qubits #Research