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[QuantumAnalysis @Qtumanalysis]

IS QUANTUM AT THE SAME STAGE SEMICONDUCTORS WERE IN THE 1960'S?

1947: the transistor. A lab curiosity, fragile, expensive, worse than vacuum tubes at most jobs. 1995-1998: the first working qubits. Same status.

1958: the integrated circuit makes transistors scalable. 2024: error correction proven below threshold, the moment quantum's core obstacle became engineering instead of physics. That's the rhyme that matters most: both fields had one breakthrough that converted "can it work" into "who builds it best."

1962: the US government buys essentially 100% of all integrated circuits, for Minuteman and Apollo, absorbing the cost curve until chips fell from $32 to under $2. 2026: governments are quantum's dominant customer, and Washington is taking equity stakes, running a $200M Pentagon fielding program, and standing up foundries. Same role, more aggressive instruments.

1987: Sematech. Japan panic, $500M matched government-industry consortium, US chip leadership rebuilt in a decade. 2026: the CHIPS quantum awards, China panic, same structure, same logic.

The foundry pattern is repeating too. Semis split into designers and manufacturers, and the manufacturers became kingmakers. Watch quantum: IBM spinning up a dedicated quantum foundry, IonQ buying SkyWater, GlobalFoundries carving out a quantum unit. The fab layer is separating from the design layer, right on schedule.

And the most underrated lesson: silicon beat germanium. Germanium was the better semiconductor, faster, cleaner electrically. Silicon won because it was manufacturable at scale. Nobody in 1955 building the "best" transistor won. The one you could make a billion of won. Every modality argument in quantum today should be read through that sentence.

Although, semiconductors sold products at every rung, hearing aids in 1953, radios in 1955, revenue funding each next step. Quantum has a threshold. Below fault tolerance, applications are thin, above it, they're everywhere. That's why governments matter more this time, they're the bridge across the revenue gap semis never had.

Quantum in 2026 is semiconductors around 1961. After the enabling breakthrough, government as anchor customer, before the commercial explosion, with the manufacturing layer just starting to form. Though we believe Quantum's timeline will advance much faster.

$IBM $IONQ $INFQ $RGTI

[QuantumAnalysis @Qtumanalysis]

CONGRESS INTRODUCES THE AMERICAN QUANTUM COMPETITIVENESS ACT

This new bill introduced by Rep. Nick Langworthy makes the Commerce Department the federal lead on commercial quantum. Manufacturing, deployment, investment, supply chains. The Commerce Secretary becomes the President's principal advisor on scaling the industry.

They'll map every critical component in the quantum supply chain, identify investment barriers, flag which parts come from foreign adversary countries, and write a national competitiveness strategy with industry, labs, states, and allies. Public report in two years, then every three.

Quantum has been viewed as a science program for eight years. This creates a second lane, commercialization, with one agency in charge. It's the same structure the CHIPS Act used for semiconductors. Science agencies fund the labs, commerce industrializes what comes out.

This bill is backed by IBM, Microsoft, and Google's industry coalition, plus RIT, Rochester, UAlbany, Buffalo, Syracuse, and RPI.

The status: introduced, not passed.

We'll so how this turns out.

$INFQ $IBM $IONQ $GOOGL

[BlueQubit @BlueQubitIO]

⚛️ New tools for building efficient Quantum Fourier Transforms!
Authors introduce two approaches based on Mackey theory and Clifford theory. 🔬
They achieve major improvements for QFTs over groups including GL₂(Fq) and wreath products F ≀ Sₙ. 🚀
📄 https://t.co/7NlN0tu9Af

#QubitScript #QuantumComputing #QuantumAlgorithms #QuantumFourierTransform #QuantumResearch

[QuantumAnalysis @Qtumanalysis]

JAPAN JUST BUILT THEIR FIRST NEUTRAL ATOM COMPUTER AND PICKED INFLEQTION

Hours ago, Japan announced "Shunkai" is operational. The country's first full stack neutral atom machine, built under its national Moonshot program with Hitachi.

The quantum processor inside came from Infleqtion.

Here's what makes that wild. Japan's Moonshot program is its moonshot, a national initiative to transform Japan's economy and security by 2050. Out of every quantum company on earth, Japan's Science and Technology Agency selected exactly ONE foreign partner. $INFQ.

The machine: laser controlled atoms as qubits, scaling toward 500. The roadmap is 10,000 physical qubits with error correction by March 2031, opened to outside researchers. The lab is run by Kenji Ohmori, whose team made two-qubit gates on atoms two orders of magnitude faster.

Now zoom out, because there's a pattern.

The UK's national quantum center runs an Infleqtion neutral atom testbed.

Illinois is building an Infleqtion machine targeting 2027.

The US Army: contracts their quantum sensors.

Japan just switched on a national computer with their QPU inside.

One company's atoms, deployed inside FOUR allied government programs.

America's most quiet quantum company is making the most important moves early on, integrating themselves among the whole worlds quantum programs.

$INFQ $IONQ $QBTS $RGTI

[PRX Quantum @PRX_Quantum]

Perspective: The quantum computer that breaks cryptocurrencies is smaller and closer than the community assumed—this Perspective quantifies the threat and charts the urgent migration to postquantum security.

Article: https://t.co/2zufDeDo07
Focus: https://t.co/s9aPqAEfPY

[HPCwire @HPCwire]

Caltech Experiments Confirm Predicted Universal Patterns in Quantum Phase Transitions
@Caltech #QuantumComputing #HPC
https://t.co/LAFLhS9HdN

[The Quantum Insider @QuantumDaily]

Argonne Launches $1 Million Project to Develop Diamond Quantum Sensors for Particle Physics

https://t.co/1IMKzBv8bp

[SciTech Girl @scitechgirl]

🚨 QUANTUM COMPUTING MAY BE LEAVING THE FREEZER

Quantum technology usually needs extremely cold temperatures to work. But researchers have created a tiny gold-and-glass quantum chip that can operate at room temperature.

The breakthrough could help make future quantum devices smaller, simpler, and easier to build. But it’s important to note: this is not yet a full room-temperature quantum computer.
Could quantum technology one day sit on your desk?

Source: You, C., et al. (2026). Quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystal. Nature.

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

QUANTUM COMPUTING IS ENTERING ITS COMMERCIAL ERA 👀

Quantinuum reported $8 million in Q2 2026 revenue, up 279% year over year, in its first earnings report since going public.

Company also demonstrated near 99.999% logical fidelity on its Helios trapped-ion quantum computer using a new quantum error-correction (QEC) code family, an important step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.

They're also partnering with Oracle to deploy Helios through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, bringing its quantum processor closer to mainstream cloud and high-performance computing.

Quantum era is accelerating faster than ever 🚀

[Alan Baratz @Alan_Baratz]

The latest IDC Perspective: Building Enterprise Quantum Competency: Six Strategic Decisions for Technology Buyers recommends that tech buyers “identify and prioritize business problems in which quantum computing can deliver computational advantage and measurable business outcomes.” And today, that means optimization, using technology only offered by D-Wave. Our annealing quantum computers are commercial now, and organizations can use them to tackle complex problems in scheduling, logistics, resource allocation and supply chains. The IDC Perspective references IDC PeerScape research which found that AT&T began their quantum initiatives by addressing clearly defined business challenges rather than selecting hardware platforms. The question is no longer “when will quantum be ready?” For optimization, it’s ready. The question is “Which of your hardest problems should you be solving with it now?” We’re here to help. $QBTS #quantumcomputing

[Gene @genejchan]

There's another talk by $IONQ's Chris Monroe uploaded 2 days ago

Similar material as the one before, but more advanced, and to a different audience

https://t.co/XskwK9G5iT

[Xanadu @XanaduAI]

Where quantum computing meets compiler construction and electronic design automation.

Registration is now live for the 8th International Workshop on Quantum Compilation (IWQC 2026), hosted at Xanadu HQ in Toronto on September 19 - 20.

Join the global community to dive into circuit synthesis, fault-tolerant compilation, and quantum software stacks.

Reserve your spot before August 28th: https://t.co/oD1NZ8nFeK

[D-Wave @dwavequantum]

D-Wave is a Platinum Sponsor of #Ai42026 in Las Vegas, Aug 4–6.

Join us at booth #730 to connect with the team, learn how quantum computing could potentially enable more performant, efficient AI and discuss how organizations are applying quantum technology to real-world challenges today.

And stop by our upcoming speaking session:
Aug 6, 12:20 PM PT
Speaking Session: Exploring AI Energy Efficiency and Model Performance with Quantum Computing with Murray Thom, VP Quantum Technology Evangelism, D-Wave

See you in Vegas.

#QuantumComputing #DWave #Ai42026

[tnkr @tnkrdotai]

A fully documented quadruped robot you can build yourself.

CubeBot by Vladimir Glukhov, now on Tnkr.

Print files, BOM, wiring, assembly, and software.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@Q_Portal_ particle physics conferences talking about going beyond the standard model on Sept 26, but the real physics problem is that every experimental drone flying around right now is feeding a 2030 decryption database.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@IBMNews algorithm physics acceleration is cool and all, but the real test is whether it can protect a robot’s telemetry from being vacuumed up right now for a 2030 decryption date.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@KouziTsuru honestly "Golden Flower" sounds like a cool indie band name, but a 256-qubit system scaling toward 10k by the end of the decade means the 2030 Q-Day timeline isn't a sci-fi meme anymore.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@PhysicsMagazine physics really said "not today" to the neutrino laser. wild how nature keeps putting hard limits on the sci-fi stuff while the actual threat is just sitting in plain sight.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@InvestorDenis wild how ionq turned into a full-stack conglomerate just by buying every piece of the supply chain.

[Qubotix @Qubotix]

@LanceTeren fab square footage is going vertical everywhere right now. wild to watch industrial policy actually work for once.