DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - HPC & Quantum, IBM
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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IBM and ETH Zurich collaborate on quantum computer to be hosted in Lugano, Switzerland
New system at Swiss National Supercomputing Center will be accessible to private firms and other higher education institutions
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IBM announces availability of its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor
Company claims the chip delivers improvements in quality and speed over Nighthawk r1
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IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
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IBM successfully demonstrates connection and cooling of two cryogenic modules
Company says demo is important milestone on its path to deploying first fault-tolerant quantum computer
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IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to further boost quantum computing R&D efforts
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed
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IBM CEO: Z revenue is "deferred not destroyed"
IBM executives attempt to assuage concerns after poor quarterly performance
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IBM announces five-year, $10bn quantum investment
Company says investment will help support its quantum roadmap beyond 2029
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US Dep’t of Commerce awards nine quantum computing companies $2bn in exchange for non-controlling equity stakes
Plus a round up of other quantum computing news
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IBM files for new quantum computing facility in Poughkeepsie, New York
Plans to expand campus with new 511,000 sq ft facility
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Iowa State University to shut down mainframe
Company switching to cloud-based system
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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Australian Taxation Office signs AU$104.8m contract for IBM z17 mainframe
Home Affairs department also signs AU$35m for non-mainframe IBM deal
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IBM outlines blueprint for integrating quantum computers into supercomputing environments
Reference architecture maps path for solving scientific challenge no single compute approach is capable of
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DARPA to research modular sub-kelvin cryocoolers that don't use helium-3
Could help solve a critical quantum computing supply chain challenge
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Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
Unsuccessful bidder Tea Tek claims procedural process was unfair
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IBM launches first Quantum Nighthawk processor
Dubbed IBM_Miami, the QPU delivers the highest coherence times in the IBM Quantum fleet
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IBM partners with Cisco for development of distributed quantum network
Proof-of-concept expected to be delivered by 2030
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IBM unveils Nighthawk quantum processor, claims it will deliver large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029
Company has also released a community tracker to verify quantum advantage claims
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DARPA announces 11 companies advancing to second stage of it Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Companies will now have their fault-tolerant quantum computing concepts thoroughly evaluated
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First European deployment of IBM Quantum System Two arrives in Spain’s Basque Country
System will support the Basque government’s BasQ quantum initiative
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IBM and AMD partner for development of quantum-centric supercomputing architecture
Project will see IBM integrate its quantum technology with AMD’s AI hardware offerings
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IBM to integrate Quantum System Two with Fugaku supercomputer
Japan welcomes first ever IBM Quantum System Two to be deployed outside of the US
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IBM updates quantum computing roadmap, to deliver Starling system by 2029
Company building out new quantum data center for upcoming systems
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University of Tokyo to upgrade its IBM quantum computer with 156-qubit Heron QPU
University will link quantum computer with Miyabi supercomputer later this year
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IBM and TCS to deploy IBM Quantum System Two at Quantum Valley Tech Park in India
System will contain a 156-qubit Heron quantum processor
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IBM to spend $30bn on quantum & mainframes, as part of $150bn US investment pledge
Will investment pledge appease President Trump?
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IBM saw 15 federal contracts canceled by DOGE during Q1 2025
Company loses $100 million in future payments but downplays impact in earnings call
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IBM launches Aachen, a 156-qubit quantum system powered by Heron r2 processor
System deployed in the company’s IBM Quantum Data Center in Germany