The development of quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field, with various companies and countries investing heavily in research and development to gain a competitive edge.

According to recent reports, the global quantum computing market is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2035, with investments in the field expected to grow at an annual rate of 11.5%.

The United States and China are currently dominating the quantum computing sector, with other countries such as the United Arab Emirates also making significant investments in the field.

In fact, the UAE aims to build its first quantum computer through the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), and has invested heavily in creating an environment conducive to quantum computing research and development.

China, in particular, has made rapid progress in quantum computing, despite starting late, and now accounts for 37% of global quantum information technology patent applications from 2003 to 2022.

The country has also developed a third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer, known as "Origin Wukong", which has 72-bit autonomous superconducting quantum chips.

This technology has attracted significant attention worldwide, with over 8 million visits to the "Origin Wukong" system as of May 7, 2024.

Other countries, such as Japan and Canada, have also shown interest in China's quantum computing technology, including the "Benyuan Wukong" quantum computer.

In terms of company leadership, IBM and Google are currently at the forefront of quantum computing research and development, with IBM leading the establishment of the Quantum Computing Industry Alliance in 2017.

IBM has also developed a number of significant technologies, including the Qiskit Runtime and Quantum-Safe products, and has introduced a strategy to combat quantum noise.

Google, on the other hand, demonstrated quantum supremacy in 2019, and has developed a number of quantum computing systems, including the 54-qubit Sycamore processor.

Other companies, such as IonQ and D-Wave Systems, are also making significant advancements in quantum computing, with IonQ using trapped ion qubits for stable and scalable computing.

D-Wave Systems, meanwhile, is leading in quantum annealing for optimization problems, and has potential for growth despite limitations.

In terms of investment, China has invested $15.3 billion in quantum computing government funding, while the US has invested $3.7 billion in 2022.

Europe has also invested $7.2 billion in quantum computing in 2022, and a number of other countries, including Australia, are also making significant investments in the field.

Australia, in particular, is a world leader in quantum computing research, and the government is investing nearly $1 billion in the field.

The country is also home to a number of significant quantum computing companies, including Quantum Brilliance, which is working with synthetic diamonds for quantum computing.

Overall, the development of quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field, with a number of companies and countries investing heavily in research and development to gain a competitive edge.

As the field continues to evolve, it is likely that we will see significant advancements in the coming years, with potential applications in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and logistics.

In fact, the quantum computing market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.89% from 2022 to 2032, with the market valued at USD 234.06 billion by 2032.

This growth will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing demand for quantum computing systems, and the development of new technologies and applications.

As such, it is likely that quantum computing will play an increasingly important role in the global economy in the coming years, with significant potential for growth and development.

The US, Japan, and Canada have shown interest in China's "Benyuan Wukong" quantum computer, and China aims to develop its own quantum chip industry chain and computing power network.

The UAE is among 50 projects creating an investment environment for quantum computing, and 14 global government agencies have announced quantum computing initiatives.

IDC expects $16.4 billion investments in quantum computing by 2027, and the global investments in quantum computing are expected to grow at 11.5% annually.

Quantum technologies can transform communication networks by making them more secure, and provide a springboard in computational performance for certain problems.

Four industries will see the earliest impacts of quantum computing: automotive, chemicals, financial services, and life sciences, and these industries can see a growth of $1.3 trillion by 2035 by investing in quantum computing.

There has been a 12% increase in job postings in quantum technologies between 2021 and 2022, and a $2 billion equity investment has been made in quantum technologies up until 2022.

Industries affected by quantum technologies include aerospace, automotive, chemicals, and financial services, and quantum computing is a nascent technology with growing potential.

Investments in quantum computing can lead to significant economic value, and quantum technologies have applications in most industries, leading to mainstream adoption.

IBM leads in quantum computing advancements, and Alphabet demonstrated quantum supremacy in 2019.

IBM developed Qiskit Runtime and Quantum-Safe products, and Defiance Quantum ETF invests in IonQ, Nvidia, and NXP Semiconductors.

Global spending on cloud computing is expected to reach $1 trillion annually, and IBM introduced a strategy to combat quantum noise.

Alphabet's stock gained over 40% in a turbulent year, and IBM has a 4.61% dividend yield.

Quantum computing convergence with cloud computing is a significant trend, and IBM provides accessible quantum computing via cloud services.

China invested $15.3 billion in quantum computing government funding, and investments in quantum computing startups reached $2.35 billion in 2022.

Russia works on four key physical platforms for quantum computing, and 1,600 patents were issued in quantum computing subfields in 2022.

Quantum computing can improve artificial intelligence algorithms performance, and provide new solutions to climate problems.

Companies should plan for practical quantum superiority achievement, and quantum computing can integrate into data processing workflows seamlessly.

Leading countries include quantum technologies in national programs, and Russia formed a pool of organizations for quantum computing research.

The quantum computing market is valued at USD 234.06 billion by 2032, and IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Honeywell dominate the quantum computing market.

North America leads the quantum computing market with the US playing a major role, and Europe and Asia Pacific are increasingly important markets for quantum computing.

Quantum computing has applications in healthcare, finance, logistics, and energy, and Google achieved quantum supremacy in 2019 with a calculation on its quantum computer.

IBM launched a quantum computing program for students in 2020, and Honeywell achieved a quantum computer record performance with a quantum volume of 512.

Amazon Web Services launched a quantum computing service called Amazon Bracket in 2021, and the quantum computing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36.89% from 2022 to 2032.

D-Wave Systems leads in quantum annealing for optimization problems, and IBM focuses on quantum error correction for large-scale computing.

IonQ uses trapped ion qubits for stable and scalable computing, and IBM aims to develop a 100,000 qubit quantum computer.

IonQ shows significant revenue growth and global expansion, and D-Wave Systems has potential for growth despite limitations.

IBM is a safer investment due to company stability, and IonQ demonstrates modular design for scalability.

The quantum computing industry has potential for future growth, and investing now could lead to significant future gains.

QuEra is a quantum computer startup from Harvard and MIT researchers, and QuEra's qubits use neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber.

Amazon's Braket offers six quantum computers on the cloud, and Rigetti Computing, IonQ, and D-Wave are on Amazon's Braket.

QuEra's 256-qubit computer Aquila is physically based in Boston, and Amazon is developing its own quantum computer.

Braket has a software layer for algorithm use on any quantum computer, and at least 25 companies have a quantum computer.

QuEra is the first neutral atom quantum computer on Braket, and Braket makes testing quantum computers easy and cost-effective.

IBM is a leader in quantum systems development, and Intel applies transistor-based design to quantum computing.

IonQ develops trapped ion quantum systems, and IBM delivered the first 1,000-qubit quantum chip in 2023.

Intel created a 12-qubit silicon chip with 95% yield rate, and IonQ owns 74 US-issued patents on quantum computing.

IBM focuses on miniaturization and accuracy of quantum chips, and Intel uses silicon spin qubits for quantum computing.

IonQ has strong technological advantages in quantum computing, and IBM has potential to lead in quantum computing due to technical competence.

China leads in quantum computing investment with $15.3 billion in 2022, and the US invested $3.7 billion in quantum computing in 2022.

Europe invested $7.2 billion in quantum computing in 2022, and China developed several nuclear fusion reactors.

The US partners with Japan to accelerate nuclear fusion development, and China

The development of quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field, with various companies and countries investing heavily in research and development to gain a competitive edge.

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UAE invests in ‘ quantum computing ’ to look to the future
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The UAE is investing in the sector of quantum computing, which is expected to reach a global market value of $1 trillion in 2035, as one of the fastest expanding fields of technology in the world and because of its innovative applications capable of solving challenges in many sectors, because of its strength and speed in calculating physical phenomena, compared to traditional computers.
The UAE aims to invest in quantum computing to enable innovation and a knowledge and sustainable economy through the Quantum Research Center and UAE institutes and universities to explore the future of this vital sector. The Institute of Technology Innovation ’ s (TII) Quantitative Research Center is working to build the first quantum computer in the UAE, according to the Interregional Center for Strategic Analytics in Abu Dhabi.
The UAE has quickly realized the benefits of the quantum computing sector in all sectors and fields, especially in the economy and scientific research, as part of the country ’ s long-term strategies to keep pace with the global technological development represented by the fourth industrial revolution and artificial intelligence, which will change the face of the world in the coming years.
IDC expects global investments in quantum computing to reach $16.4 billion by the end of 2027, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.5%, which includes investments by the public and private sectors and R & D spending from technology, services and finance companies.
There is growing interest in quantum computing by global government agencies, with 14 of them (13 countries plus the European Union) announcing multi-year initiatives that will generate billions of dollars for quantum computing research.
The center said that the UAE is among the 50 projects working to create an attractive investment environment for investments in new and future sectors, including quantum computing technology.
According to Accenture Middle East, quantum computing technology is advancing rapidly, making it a promising technology sector.
The US and China dominate the quantum computing sector to take advantage of the features of the new technological revolution that has enabled scientists to study the basic particles of matter, whose applications have multiplied across different fields despite their relative novelty, promising radical transformations for any industry dependent on speed and processing power, including aerospace, automotive, medicine and others.
Quantum computing technologies have a huge market value, with quantum computing alone expected to reach a global market value of $1 trillion by 2035.
Quantum technology has played a role in many areas, including complex mathematical models, simulations, electronic devices, CT scanners and many others, as it has the potential to revolutionize the way humans communicate and process information at record speeds.
The most prominent areas of use of quantum computing can be found in many fields of military, communications and medicine, and can address economic crises and challenges quickly, and there is no doubt that quantum computing technology can change the map of national industries.
Major technology companies are leading efforts to develop quantum computing, with Google Research Lab and IBM, which built one of the largest quantum computers in the field, and the Chinese University of Science and Technology has developed a quantum computer that is 10 billion times faster than the computer developed by Google.
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According to recent reports, the global quantum computing market is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2035, with investments in the field expected to grow at an annual rate of 11.5%.

The United States and China are currently dominating the quantum computing sector, with other countries such as the United Arab Emirates also making significant investments in the field.

In fact, the UAE aims to build its first quantum computer through the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), and has invested heavily in creating an environment conducive to quantum computing research and development.

What are important areas in quantum research?

China, in particular, has made rapid progress in quantum computing, despite starting late, and now accounts for 37% of global quantum information technology patent applications from 2003 to 2022.

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"Origin Goku" stable operation shows what
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Original title: "The source of Goku" stable operation shows what
As of May 7, China's third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer "Origin Wukong" has attracted more than 8 million visits worldwide.
Previously, it was successfully connected to three supercomputing centers such as the Yangtze River Delta hub Wuhu cluster computing power public service platform, marking the formal completion of China's "four calculations in one" system of general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing and measurement.
What does the stable operation of "Origin Goku" show?
"Genyuan Wukong" is China's third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer, equipped with 72-bit autonomous superconducting quantum chips.
The computer is named "Wukong", which means that it is as powerful as the traditional Chinese mythological figure Sun Wukong and can change 72 times.
"Benyuan Wukong" was independently developed by the Benyuan Quantum team and launched on January 6 this year. Since the launch of the line, the average daily global visit is about 66,700 times, and the average daily completion of nearly 1,500 computing tasks.
Quantum computing is a cutting-edge emerging technology that has great potential in artificial intelligence, biomedicine, financial analysis and other fields.
If the general purpose traditional computer is compared to a bicycle, the quantum computer is like an airplane.
To break down 300 large numbers, it takes 150,000 years to make use of a trillionth of a conventional computer, and 1 second to make use of a trillionth of a quantum computer.
The biggest advantage of quantum computers is their powerful computing power, but compared with traditional computers, the technology is immature, the manufacturing cost is high, and the reliability is not strong.
China's quantum computing technology is in the transition stage from laboratory research and development to industrial application.
"Genyuan Wukong" equipped with hardware, chips, operating systems and application software are autonomous and controllable, and the localization rate is more than 80%, which marks the basic formation of China's superconducting quantum computer industry chain.
In the four months since its launch, "Benyuan Wukong" has successfully completed more than 178,000 computing tasks for users in 120 countries, and countries with quantum computers such as the United States, Japan and Canada have shown great concern for "Benyuan Wukong", among which the frequency of visits by US users is much higher than that of other countries.
In the field of quantum computing, developed countries led by the United States have started early, developed rapidly and have a high degree of industrial maturity, and have gradually established a "quantum computing ecological chain."
For example, in 2017, IBM led the establishment of the Quantum Computing Industry Alliance (IBM Quantum Network), which has more than 250 members from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Australia and other countries, involving Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and academic institutions.
However, although China started late in the quantum field, it has made rapid progress.
A recent paper on global quantum information technology patents shows that from 2003 to 2022, China's quantum information technology patent applications accounted for 37% of the global total, surpassing the proportion of the United States slightly more than 28%.
"Origin Wukong" is the first large-scale and long-term opening of China's quantum computing power to the world, indicating that China has officially entered the "usable" era of quantum computing power.
Looking forward to the future, let the "Wukong" further play the power of the "source", it will take many efforts.
We should focus on making up for the shortcomings and strength of the weak, so that the key instruments and equipment of quantum computing can be fully replaced in China. We should support the building of the quantum chip industry chain and build a quantum computing power network. To change the situation of shortage of talents in the quantum field.
Computing power is the new quality of productivity in the digital economy era, who has mastered the advanced computing power, who has mastered the "winning chance" of development.
On the international science and technology track of quantum computers, the layout and development of independent industrial chains is an inevitable choice for us to face the forefront of world science and technology, the main battlefield of the economy, and the major needs of the country.
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What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

The country has also developed a third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer, known as "Origin Wukong", which has 72-bit autonomous superconducting quantum chips.

What are important areas in quantum research?

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

What seminal quantum computers/ processors have been developed?

This technology has attracted significant attention worldwide, with over 8 million visits to the "Origin Wukong" system as of May 7, 2024.

Other countries, such as Japan and Canada, have also shown interest in China's quantum computing technology, including the "Benyuan Wukong" quantum computer.

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

In terms of company leadership, IBM and Google are currently at the forefront of quantum computing research and development, with IBM leading the establishment of the Quantum Computing Industry Alliance in 2017.

What companies are leading in developing quantum computing?

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

IBM has also developed a number of significant technologies, including the Qiskit Runtime and Quantum-Safe products, and has introduced a strategy to combat quantum noise.

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) has made considerable strides in fast-evolving quantum computing. Its pioneering advancements, accessible via cloud services, are critical to the broader cloud and cognitive software division.

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Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has effectively carved out its niche in the competitive landscape of quantum computing. Its journey began in 2006, with a breakthrough in 2019 when Alphabet demonstrated “quantum supremacy,” showcasing its quantum computer’s capacity to outperform a conventional computer.

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What are important areas in quantum research?

What companies are leading in developing quantum computing?

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

Google, on the other hand, demonstrated quantum supremacy in 2019, and has developed a number of quantum computing systems, including the 54-qubit Sycamore processor.

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Content: Quantum Computing Market was valued at nearly USD 234.06 billion by 2032

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Updated · Mar 06, 2023

Quantum Computing Market Overview

Published Via 11Press: Quantum computing is a rapidly developing market that is revolutionizing how we approach computing and data processing. By employing principles of quantum mechanics to perform computations, quantum computers are capable of solving problems that classical computers may find impossible or impracticable to resolve.

The global quantum computing market size is forecast to reach USD 234.06 billion by 2032 from USD 10.13 billion in 2022, rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.89% during the forecast period.

At present, the quantum computing market is dominated by a few major players such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Honeywell. These firms are investing heavily in quantum computing research and development as well as creating quantum computing hardware and software systems.

The quantum computing market is expected to have a profound effect on industries such as healthcare, finance, logistics, and energy. Some key applications of quantum computing include drug discovery, supply chain optimization, financial modeling, and climate modeling.

Though the quantum computing market is promising, it still faces several obstacles such as high costs of hardware, a shortage of skilled experts in this area, and technical difficulties when building large-scale quantum computers. With ongoing research and development efforts, however, these problems should be overcome within the coming years, leading to even greater growth and innovation in this space.

Key Takeaways

  • The global quantum computing market size was valued at USD 234.06 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 36.89% from 2022 to 2032.
  • Quantum computing is capable of solving problems that would be intractable or impossible for classical computers to solve.
  • The quantum computing market is dominated by a few major players, including IBM, Google, Microsoft and Honeywell.
  • The quantum computing market is expected to have a profound effect on numerous industries, such as healthcare, finance, logistics and energy.
  • Quantum computing has many important applications such as drug discovery, supply chain optimization, financial modeling and climate modeling.
  • The quantum computing market remains plagued by several obstacles, such as the high cost of quantum computing hardware, lack of qualified quantum computing experts and technical difficulties in building and running large-scale quantum computing systems.
  • Research and development are expected to overcome these obstacles within the next couple of years, propelling even greater growth and innovation in the quantum computing market.

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Regional Snapshot

  • North America: North America is currently the leading market for quantum computing, with the United States playing a major role. Major companies such as IBM, Google, and Microsoft are driving this growth through their presence and investment in research and development activities related to quantum computing. This region boasts numerous key players such as IBM, Google, and Microsoft which are driving demand within this region.
  • Europe: Europe is an increasingly important market for quantum computing, with countries such as the UK, Germany, and France investing heavily in research and development. Through partnerships between quantum computing companies and other technology firms as well as the growing adoption of quantum computing across various industries, this region’s market is experiencing rapid expansion.
  • Asia Pacific: The quantum computing market in Asia Pacific is expected to experience significant growth over the coming years due to increased investments in research and development by countries like China, Japan, and South Korea. Furthermore, there have been an increasing number of collaborations between companies using quantum computing with academic institutions as well as its increasing adoption across industries like healthcare and finance – all contributing factors for market expansion within this region.
  • The Rest of the World: Countries such as Brazil, South Africa, and the UAE are expected to experience significant growth in the quantum computing market over the coming years due to increased investments in research and development efforts as well as the growing adoption of quantum computing across various industries. These factors are fueling this region’s meteoric rise in this region.

Drivers

  • Quantum Computing Gaining Adoption in Various Industries: Quantum computing is seeing an uptick in popularity across a range of industries, such as healthcare, finance, logistics, and energy – as companies seek to use their power to solve complex problems and gain an edge in competition.
  • Investments in Quantum Computing Research and Development: Governments, academic institutions, and private companies have made substantial investments in quantum computing research and development, spurring innovation and progress within the field.
  • Growing Number of Partnerships and Collaborations: There has been an uptick in partnerships and collaborations between quantum computing companies and other technology firms, as well as academic institutions and research organizations. This trend is propelling the development of new quantum computing hardware and software systems, as well as its adoption across various industries.
  • Increasing Access to Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Services: The growing availability of cloud-based quantum computing services is making it simpler for companies and researchers to utilize this cutting-edge technology, spurring adoption and innovation within the field.

Restraints

  • Limited Access to Qualified Quantum Computing Experts: Unfortunately, there is currently a shortage of highly experienced quantum computing specialists, making it challenging for companies to construct and sustain quantum computing systems.
  • Technical Challenges in Building and Maintaining Large-Scale Quantum Computing Systems: The development of large-scale quantum computing systems is still in its early stages, so there are numerous technical obstacles that must be overcome, such as noise reduction, error correction, and scalability.
  • Limited Quantum Computing Applications: Although the list of potential applications for quantum computing is growing, the number of practical ones that have been developed and implemented remains limited. This can make it challenging for companies to justify investing in quantum computing technology.
  • Regulatory Challenges: Quantum computing technology may face regulatory restrictions, particularly around data privacy and security. This could create additional obstacles to the adoption and investment in the technology.

Opportunities

  • Growing Number of Partnerships and Collaborations: The growing number of partnerships and collaborations among quantum computing companies, other technology firms, academic institutions, and research organizations is creating opportunities for the development of new quantum computing hardware and software systems as well as its adoption across various industries.
  • Advancements in Quantum Computing Hardware and Software: With the rapid progress being made in the development of quantum computing hardware and software, new opportunities will present themselves for applying this technology across various industries and fields.
  • The growing availability of cloud-based quantum computing services: Cloud-based quantum computing services are making it simpler for companies and researchers to access and utilize quantum computing technology, spurring adoption and innovation within the field.
  • Growth of Quantum Computing as a Service: As more companies and researchers embrace the potential of quantum computing, cloud-based quantum computing services are creating exciting new business opportunities for those offering these solutions.
  • Potential for Breakthroughs in Areas such as Drug Discovery, Finance, and Energy: Quantum computing holds the potential to unravel complex issues in fields like drug discovery, finance, and energy – leading to major breakthroughs and advances. This presents companies with unique opportunities for those who can develop and implement quantum computing solutions in these sectors.

Challenges

  • Technical Challenges in Constructing and Running Large Quantum Computing Systems: As quantum computing systems continue to emerge, numerous technical obstacles must be overcome such as noise reduction, error correction, and scalability. These issues make it challenging for companies to construct and run these massive quantum computers efficiently.
  • Limited Access to Qualified Quantum Computing Experts: There is currently a shortage of highly experienced quantum computing professionals, making it difficult for companies to construct and maintain quantum computing systems. This shortage could potentially restrict the growth of this industry in the coming years.
  • Quantum computing Applications: While quantum computing has many potential uses, the number of practical applications that have been created and implemented remains limited. This could make investing in quantum computing technology and research on practical applications an attractive prospect.

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Recent Developments

  • Google Claims Quantum Supremacy: In 2019, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy by performing a calculation on its quantum computer that even the most powerful supercomputers would take thousands of years to complete. This was seen as an important milestone in the advancement of quantum computing technology.
  • IBM Launches Quantum Computing Program for Students: In 2020, IBM unveiled a quantum computing program specifically tailored towards students that provides them with access to IBM’s resources and tools, as well as a platform for learning and collaboration.
  • Honeywell Achieves Quantum Computer Record Performance: On March 20, 2021, Honeywell revealed its creation of a quantum computer with an astonishing quantum volume of 512. This feat marked an amazing advancement in quantum computing technology and demonstrated how rapidly progress has been made since then.
  • Amazon Web Services Announces Quantum Computing Service: On June 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its own quantum computing service called Amazon Bracket. This offering gives customers access to various vendors’ hardware as well as tools and resources for developing and testing quantum algorithms.

Key Market Segments

Type

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Services

Application

  • Defense
  • Healthcare & pharmaceuticals
  • Chemicals
  • Banking & Finance
  • Energy & power

Key Market Players

  • D-Wave Systems
  • Google
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • 1QB Information Technologies
  • Anyon Systems
  • Cambridge Quantum Computing
  • ID Quantique
  • IonQ
  • QbitLogic
  • QC Ware
  • Quantum Circuits
  • Qubitekk
  • QxBranch
  • Rigetti Computing

Nature Insights

  • Progress is being made in the development of quantum computing hardware: Despite the challenges facing large-scale quantum computing systems, progress is being made on quantum computing hardware. This includes creating quantum processors with increasingly more qubits and creating new materials suitable for use in quantum computers.
  • Quantum computing software is still in its early stages: While progress is being made with quantum computing hardware, software development for quantum computation remains at a standstill. This presents an immense challenge to the industry as developing efficient quantum algorithms is essential to realizing its full potential.
  • Collaboration is essential to the advancement of quantum computing: Collaboration between companies, academic institutions, and research organizations is essential for progress in this industry. This includes joint efforts to develop new hardware and software systems as well as collaborations that promote quantum computing across various industries.

Report Scope

Report Attribute Details
The market size value in 2022 USD 10.13 Bn
Revenue forecast by 2032 USD 234.6 Bn
Growth Rate CAGR Of 36.89%
Regions Covered North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa, and the Rest of the World
Historical Years 2017-2022
Base Year 2022
Estimated Year 2023
Short-Term Projection Year 2028
Long-Term Projected Year 2032

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FAQ.

What is quantum computing?

Quantum computing is a type of processing data using quantum mechanics. It relies on principles such as superposition, entanglement, and interference which enable quantum computers to perform calculations that would be impossible with classical computers.

What are some potential applications of quantum computing?

Quantum computing holds great promise for revolutionizing industries such as drug discovery, finance, energy, and logistics. Potential uses include creating new drugs and materials, optimizing supply chains and logistics networks, and even improving weather forecasting models with greater precision.

What are some of the challenges facing the quantum computing market?

The quantum computing market faces numerous obstacles, such as technical difficulties in building and running large-scale quantum computers, high costs associated with quantum computing hardware, a scarcity of highly qualified quantum experts, and an absence of practical applications developed and deployed.

Who are some of the major players in the quantum computing market?

Major companies operating within this space include IBM, Google, Microsoft, Honeywell, Intel, and Rigetti Computing. These firms are actively developing and commercializing quantum computing hardware and software systems.

What is the outlook for the quantum computing market?

Overall, analysts anticipate a bright future for quantum computing, with continued investment and innovation anticipated in the coming years. Though still in its early stages of development, its potential advantages are immense - leading to rapid industry growth over the coming years.

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What are important areas in quantum research?

What companies are leading in developing quantum computing?

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

What have been the landmark achievements in quantum computing?

Google's Sycamore quantum supremacy experiment

Other companies, such as IonQ and D-Wave Systems, are also making significant advancements in quantum computing, with IonQ using trapped ion qubits for stable and scalable computing.

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Content: Quantum computers, first proposed by Richard Feynman in the 1980s, have seen rapid growth in recent years, offering potential solutions to problems that modern computers cannot handle. Shor’s Algorithm, in particular, has gained significant attention for its ability to break encryption paradigms. This has created opportunities for investors in the quantum computing industry.

Quantum computing is still a niche market, making it an ideal time to invest. Small investments now could lead to significant gains in the future. While standardization in the industry is limited, this lack of consensus presents a chance for knowledgeable investors to identify the most promising systems. Investing in the system that becomes the standard for future quantum computers could be highly profitable.

Among the emerging quantum computing stocks, three notable options are D-Wave Systems, International Business Machines (IBM), and IonQ.

D-Wave Systems specializes in quantum annealing, allowing quantum computers to solve optimization problems that classical computers struggle with. While their current quantum computers have limitations, their work on solving optimization problems is promising for future applications. D-Wave Systems has shown potential for growth despite being a speculative stock.

IBM, one of the largest players in quantum computing, is focusing on quantum error correction, a critical challenge in the field. Their roadmap aims to develop a 100,000 qubit quantum computer, enabling the practical use of algorithms like Shor’s. IBM’s stability as a company makes it a safer investment compared to its competitors.

IonQ, on the other hand, stands out for its use of trapped ion qubits, which are more stable than other types. Their modular design allows for scalability, and the company is expanding its global reach. Demonstrating significant revenue growth and partnerships in their Q1 2023 earnings report, IonQ shows potential for success.

Investing in quantum computing stocks presents an opportunity for significant returns, considering the industry’s potential for future growth and the unique challenges it faces. While D-Wave Systems, IBM, and IonQ are promising options, it is essential to carefully monitor the progress and financials of each company before making investment decisions.

What are important areas in quantum research?

implementations of quantum processors
new types of qubits

What companies are leading in developing quantum computing?

D-Wave Systems, meanwhile, is leading in quantum annealing for optimization problems, and has potential for growth despite limitations.

In terms of investment, China has invested $15.3 billion in quantum computing government funding, while the US has invested $3.7 billion in 2022.

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Content: US-China technology war threatens scientific progress
US-China technology war threatens scientific progress
The world is currently witnessing an escalating technological war between the United States and China, while Europe is also participating in it, but only timidly, as its efforts to maintain technological supremacy decline due to stagnation in this area.
As the major powers in that war seek to protect themselves from technological dependency, it could threaten the world ’ s progress and prosperity by fragmenting it into competing technological worlds.
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German writer Wolfgang Hearn published a book in 2024 entitled “The Technological War between China and the United States and the European Position on Competition ”, in which he discusses the historical role of these major powers in supporting the march of technological progress, and the most important technological fields that are grappling with, especially quantum computing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and others, as well as the dangers of this conflict and the feasibility of cooperation between powers in the technological field.
The book traces the knowledge and technological contributions of the United States, China and Europe, noting that Washington established modern global technological development when the Second Industrial Revolution began with the discovery of electricity and the Third Industrial Revolution with the introduction of computers.
This was followed by innovations such as the Internet and electronic chips.
According to a report published by the Future Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, this American success is due to the availability of elements of knowledge (universities and research bodies) and capital.
China contributed to historical technological development during the period (960 – 1279 AD) through the invention of paper, printing art, powder gunpowder and magnetic compass, followed by a rapid decline due to, inter alia, the Opium Wars, the end of the Empire, and civil wars, until China intensified efforts to achieve a slow recovery beginning in 1978, and then a strong rise during the last two decades.
Europe experienced the first industrial revolution a hundred years ago, as it pioneered natural sciences and medicine at the time, but there is now a marked decline in several technological areas when compared to Beijing and Washington, and this affected leading European industries, such as the automotive industry; where leading companies, such as Volkswagen, lag in the areas of autonomous and automated driving.
The book offers several technological areas in which conflicts between major powers arise, as follows:
Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence applications aim to simulate the human mind in its patterns of thinking and processing of data, which makes the performance of complex tasks entrusted to it.
The United States provides support to companies involved in this field, resulting in the launch of ChatGT in 2022, which can be used to obtain high-quality and accurate answers on various topics.
China has banned the app and created its latest emulator, Ernie Bot, which was launched in 2023.
European efforts to invest in artificial intelligence appeared disappointing, with the German minister of research presenting a plan of action aimed at investing about 1.6 billion euros by 2025 in the field.
Semiconductors or electronic chips are used in various low-tech devices, from washing machines to missiles, a US invention that emerged in the 1950s, but two companies currently monopolize the field: Samsung in South Korea and TSMC in Taiwan, and Beijing, Washington and Europe cannot compete, at least in the near term.
Digital transformation: Digital transformation aims to embed technological technologies into business and social processes and interactions.
Washington and Beijing dominate this area, the first is the main founder of the four Internet giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, while the second contributed three rival giants, namely: Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, while Europe is at the bottom of the list of leading companies such as: Zalando and Otto.
Quantum computing and quantum theory: The field of quantum computing is based on combining disciplines, such as computer science, physics and mathematics, using quantum theory to achieve sophisticated analytical processing of data that ordinary computers cannot process with the same speed and accuracy.
This contributes to breakthroughs in many fields, such as medicine, by making it possible to diagnose and treat diseases cheaply such as Alzheimer ’ s, epilepsy and Parkinson ’ s.
It also alters war strategies by creating a radar based on quantum technologies that can track and locate an adversary.
China tops the list of investors in this new technology.
According to U.S. consulting firm McKinsey, Chinese investment reached $15.3 billion in 2022.
It was followed by Europe with $7.2 billion and the United States with $3.7 billion.
• Energy generation: States are seeking to exploit technology to provide promising and safe ways to generate energy from it, nuclear fusion (the production of an artificial sun), which is based on the idea of merging two light atomic nuclei of hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium to produce one heavier atomic nucleus of a new element, helium, as happens on the surface of the sun.
This fusion is accompanied by the emission of four times the amount of energy produced by nuclear fission reactions.
However, there are obstacles to the actual implementation of this technology, such as the need to provide high temperatures of up to 100 million degrees Celsius to ensure that no long-term greenhouse gases or radioactive waste is produced.
Despite the difficulty of using fusion in power generation in the near future until 2050, countries are sparing no effort to develop this technology; China has developed several nuclear fusion reactors, the latest of which is the advanced experimental Tokamak designed to provide temperatures of up to 120 million degrees Celsius in 2022.
The United States is also interested in supporting related research and partnering with Japan this year to accelerate nuclear fusion development.
Europe is also making concrete efforts in this area through the joint European-Japanese project JT-60SA in 2022.
Biotechnology and medicine: applications of digital health care, genetic foods, and genetic scissors (Chris BR), which refers to a technique used to cut and modify DNA in a targeted way; genes can be inserted, removed, or disabled, whether in plants, animals, or humans; making its use ethically accountable, especially if applied to humans.
China uses it in agriculture to ensure the production of genetic foods and provide needed food for its people, while the United States approved the first treatment for sickle cell disease late last year, and the use of the technology in Europe faces strict legal rules according to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in 2018.
Space travel: The United States, China and Russia have paid special attention to space by sending missions and spaceflight to the Moon and Mars.
But competition between Washington and Beijing has now subsided as Moscow has been hit by financial crises.
The technological impulse of Washington and Beijing supports the economic impulse in this area: the need to mine space and reveal its resources that can be used, and for Europe it does not yet have an ambitious and practical policy to invade space.
Patents and people: The United States tops the list, with its universities, research centers and capital, while China filed nearly 3 million patents in 2023, of which only 10 percent were accepted.
Germany is a European power in the field of patents, but has been in decline recently, according to the German government ’ s report on the future strategy for research and innovation.
Because the human element is the most important link in the development of technology and the registration of patents, the major powers take several ways to prepare the human element, especially in the fields of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology, but suffer a huge gap between supply and demand.
But China has two competitive advantages: huge numbers graduate each year from universities, and an active policy of sending students and scientists abroad to study and train and then calling them back when needed.
According to the book, the technological struggle between major powers cannot be confined to the former; there are other promising areas.
In the military field, combat drones and autonomous military robots can be built that make decisions on the battlefield autonomously without the need for human intervention.
At the urban level, smart cities can be created that rely on the Internet of Things to do their functions quickly and with a high degree of accuracy, such as facilitating traffic in those cities, rationalizing the energy used and environmental monitoring for any potential environmental risks.
Technology cooperation between China, the United States and Europe is crucial, especially in the circumstances of climate change, energy crises and migration, especially as the continuation of the technological war will lead to a global rise in prices, a decline in welfare rates and a decline in global total production by 7 percent, according to economists at the International Monetary Fund.
It is expected that the current technological war between Beijing and Washington will lead to technical fragmentation, as two different technological worlds, one American and the other Chinese, may arise, as has already happened with the Internet, resulting in increased costs for consumers and producers and a slowdown in the desired development to prevent the exchange of knowledge and technology between the two worlds.
While the writer understands the need for countries to protect their economies and technological progress from falling into the trap of dependence, the solution is to take an approach aimed at reducing those risks by diversifying relations with many international actors and forming alliances rather than cutting trade and technology ties, as happened between the United States and China in the trade war launched by former US President Donald Trump.
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How much have countries and blocs invested in quantum computing?

U.S. invested $3.7 B
China invested $15.3B

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

Europe has also invested $7.2 billion in quantum computing in 2022, and a number of other countries, including Australia, are also making significant investments in the field.

What countries and blocs are leading in developing quantum computing?

Australia, in particular, is a world leader in quantum computing research, and the government is investing nearly $1 billion in the field.

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Chandeliers, ‘qubits’ and Schrödinger’s cat: Inside the bizarre world of quantum computing

In the quantum realm, the laws of physics are different. Now its mind-bending tech could soon transform our lives. How does it work?

It was 2009, and a group of scientists had crowded around a tiny monitor in a Sydney physics laboratory. The team, led by electrical engineer Andrea Morello, held their collective breath and peered at a single flat line on the screen. Then, in the blink of an eye, the line changed: it was a series of blips, like a heartbeat. They’d hit paydirt. “When you see that symbol, you’re in the game,” recalls physicist Charles Tahan.

Welcome to the quantum world, a subatomic realm – yes, smaller than an atom – where the laws of physics are, well, different. The experiment made Morello and his team the first in the world to show that a quantum computer could be made using not diamonds, not the superconductor niobium, but everyday silicon. “To show you could do that, 100 different things had to go right,” says Tahan.

Quantum computing is one of the key technologies defining this century. Its proponents say it will do for computers what the car did to the horse and buggy. It will upend encryption and molecular biology. In theory, it could even possibly find cures for cancer. Australia is among the world leaders in a quantum computing gold rush, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying his government is “serious about building a strong quantum ecosystem” and investing nearly a billion dollars.

Yet despite eye-watering outlays worldwide, quantum computing is still in its infancy, part of a mind-bending world that physicists are only beginning to fully grasp. What is it? And how will it make a difference to our lives?

How does a quantum computer work (and why did Alice in Wonderland have the jump on it?)

It’s often remarked that it looks like a beautiful chandelier, or a wedding cake. And IBM’s quantum computer, one of the world’s largest, is certainly an intriguing object, an intricate dome of golden wires and graceful tubes suspended from a ceiling.

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The part we can see, though, is really just the control and support system for a microchip (currently a version called Condor) buried deep inside. The glittering exoskeleton is there to keep its tiny heart as cold as possible – a hundred times colder than the coldest depths of space – and to feed information in and out, the process that makes it a “computer” and not just a science experiment.

The chip itself is smaller than a postage stamp, with several layers of circuitry and metal sandwiched in a tiny square, cooled to improve conductivity and to eliminate “noise”, the bugbear of many such devices. But even what we see here is not where the action happens. For that, we have to go deeper still, down into the chip and well beyond what’s visible through even the most powerful microscope, beyond the layers of individual atoms, into the atoms themselves.

‘The truth is the universe doesn’t run by the rules that we see every day – gravity, you bounce a ball and it falls. It runs on these other rules: quantum mechanics.’

In the subatomic realm of electrons, protons and photons, things happen very differently. Indeed, these tiny particles have no use for Newton’s laws of physics, nor even many of Einstein’s. “The truth,” says Tahan, “is the universe doesn’t run by the rules that we see every day – gravity, you bounce a ball and it falls. It runs on these other rules: quantum mechanics.”

Why these particles behave as they do in the quantum realm is a difficult concept to get your head around. Even Einstein resisted aspects of it, famously arguing that “God does not play dice with the Universe”. It was a misstep. “Because he didn’t believe in the completeness of quantum mechanics,” says Morello, “he lost a lot of productive years because he didn’t understand how it is possible that this thing is true.”

Many leading physicists investigated the concept from the early 1900s, including some familiar from popular culture today, notably Einstein and Neils Bohr (portrayed in Oppenheimer), Werner Heisenberg (whose name Walter White stole for his drug-chemist alter ego in Breaking Bad) and Viennese physicist Erwin Schrödinger, of the famous cat experiment (explained below).

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Lewis Carroll, meanwhile, may have had the jump on quantum physics with his ideas in the Alice books, as James Renner observed in The Wall Street Journal in 2015. “We speak of going down the wormhole into a mysterious world that defies Newtonian physics, where once Alice went down the rabbit hole into a mysterious world that had much the same effect. Now we speak of quantum particles being in two places at once or even Schrödinger’s cat being alive and dead at the same time, long after the Cheshire Cat’s grin was magically displaced from its body.”

The quantum realm has only truly begun to reveal itself to us relatively recently. In 1964, the Irish-born physicist John Bell published one of the most important theorems, which, according to Professor Andrew Whitaker in Physics World, “opened up the possibility of experimental philosophy, the study of what are normally thought of as philosophical issues in experiments. Not only do these experiments probe the deepest and most profound aspects of quantum theory, they also provide information on the fundamental nature of the universe.”

At the time, Bell’s theorem could not be tested in a lab. That would come in the late 1960s and early 1970s when experimentalists such as John Clauser began to show that the weirdness Bell had described on paper actually occurred in the real world. Which, at the time, was considered quite rude. One eminent physicist “was highly offended by my impertinent effort and told me that it was tantamount to professing a disbelief in quantum physics,” Clauser later recalled.

He and other apostates continued their work because he found some of the predictions “sufficiently bizarre that I could not accept them without seeing experimental proof”. Working with leftover lab equipment – “physics department scrap” – he went on to provide experimental evidence that refuted even Einstein’s theories. “I was very sad to see that my own experiment had proven Einstein wrong,” he said. Clauser would go on to win the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics alongside Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments with so-called “entangled” particles.

Quantum physicists still despair at the difficulties of explaining their weird world to outsiders. “Many writers fall back on boilerplate that makes physicists howl in agony,” wrote computer scientist Scott Aaronson in The New York Times in 2019. Unfortunately, says Gerard Milburn, a quantum physicist from the University of Queensland, “The quantum world lies beyond the reach of natural language.”

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But we’ll give it a go. Chiefly, particles in the quantum realm aren’t tied down to being in one place or state in the way bigger things are in the outside world, such as cats, which tend to be in one place at once. They obey different rules entirely. The first way to understand this oddness harks back to high-school science and how light can behave as both a particle and a wave. Photons – bursts of light – can act like ball bearings, with position and momentum. Yet light also behaves like a wave washing over a beach in a way that a ball bearing can’t. That’s a quantum physics party trick.

What is Schrödinger’s cat?

The most famous primer for quantum mechanics is the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat, a mind experiment devised by Schrödinger in 1935. A hypothetical cat goes into a box with a vial of poison gas, which has a 50-50 chance of killing it. You close the box and can’t see inside. So, without opening the box, you can’t know whether the poison has killed the cat or not. Therefore, posited Schrödinger, puss is neither dead nor alive but both – until you open the box.

In quantum mechanics, this state is called “superposition”. It’s impossible to describe properly without a background in higher-level mathematics, which we lack, but it generally means not knowing whether, say, an electron is over here, or over there, or – cat-like – in both places at the same time. Another way of looking at it is to visualise a coin spinning on its side. Until it stops and lands on one side or another, it’s not heads or tails but both.

At least, kind of.

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“Every explanation we give in lay terms is in some way wrong,” says Stephen Bartlett, a theoretical quantum physicist and director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute. “People often say a quantum superposition is in the value zero and the value one at the same time. That’s sort of right, and sort of not right.” Says Morello: “This is where language is failing us, right? If you’re trying to say that in plain English, it sounds really weird. But if you actually think about, you know, the mathematics of it, and the actual physical embodiment of that, it actually makes perfect sense.” Suffice to say, a real cat cannot find itself in “superposition”: this is a state that can exist only in the subatomic world.

How is this useful (and what’s a qubit)?

In a conventional computer, information is encoded as voltages that pass around the system thanks to millions of tiny transistors – essentially, gates or switches that turn on and off. A quantum computer is similar except that instead of using transistors as switches it uses subatomic particles, such as electrons or photons, that can have many more states than simply on or off, according to their position, momentum, spin direction and polarisation. Once harnessed – and there are many ways of doing that – these particles-as-switches are called “qubits”, a play on the word “bit”, the smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store.

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Information can be encoded on qubits in various ways: for his computers, Morello uses silicon and strong magnetic fields like those found in MRI machines. “The stuff that I build in my lab is actually a small silicon chip the size of a fingernail,” he says, “but the whole infrastructure around it is quite fancy. It’s a very powerful refrigerator that cools down the chip to [just] above absolute zero.

Critically, qubits can relate to other qubits in a state called “entanglement”. This enables quantum computers to perform multiple calculations simultaneously – which is their superpower. Schrödinger described entanglement as “the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought”. Sceptical Einstein called entanglement “spooky action at a distance”. Gerard Milburn says entanglement is great for building a computer “because if you want to have all these switches, having them strongly correlated is exactly what you want. And if you can control those correlations, you can do computation.”

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It’s these characteristics that have scientists and engineers excited. Not because quantum computers will necessarily take over from the conventional miracles we so rely on today but because they can do some particular things that transistor-based machines either struggle with or fail at completely. Today’s supercomputer might try to simulate molecular behaviour with “brute force”, says IBM’s quantum department. “But as it moves past the simplest, most straightforward molecules available, the supercomputer stalls. Quantum algorithms take a new approach to these sorts of complex problems, creating multidimensional computational spaces.”

‘Calculations that are completely impossible … would rapidly become possible on a quantum computer.’

This might include modelling how a drug might affect a virus, how new materials in aeroplanes might react to stress, or the exact process necessary to create a perfect chemical reaction.

“Calculations that are completely impossible – not just on present-day conventional computers but any conceivable future conventional computer – would rapidly become possible on a quantum computer,” says Andrew Doherty, professor of physics at Sydney University. “These are things where the application of that computer would be transformative to people’s lives without every home, you know, having a laptop quantum computer.”

Whether quantum computing will also revolutionise artificial intelligence is less certain. AI works by drawing from a huge amount of data, which is not something that naturally fits on a quantum computer, says Morello. “The problem with quantum computers in general and, in particular, with applications to AI is that loading data into them and reading data out of them is slow and cumbersome and prone to errors. It’s a bottleneck.”

Why is it so hard to build quantum machines?

Creating the qubits is hard, whatever material you start with. Interfacing with them via tiny wires like the golden lattice in IBM’s machines is hard. Getting accurate information from them is hard: “noise”, in the form of vibration or spurious electromagnetic signals, makes them behave badly and give poor results – “decoherence”, in physics speak.

Much of Andrew Doherty’s team’s work these days is in figuring out how to reduce this noise to acceptable levels and compensating for the errors that noise produces. “Compared to our conventional computers, quantum technology [computers] are very noisy devices,” he says. “They go wrong one time in 1000 as opposed to one time in an astronomically huge number of uses of [normal computers].”

Teams around the world are working on multiple approaches both to building the machines and compensating for their eccentricities, from labs in Australia to the tech giants Google, Microsoft and IBM – its Quantum Lab relies on superconducting qubits made from aluminium and niobiumand the Chinese government.

Some versions, such as IBM’s and Morello’s, chill the atoms to keep them as stable as possible. In contrast, the Australian company Quantum Brilliance is working with synthetic diamonds because they work at room temperature. “Unlike other materials,” says co-founder Marcus Doherty (no relation to Andrew), “diamond’s incredible hardness means that even at room temperature, there isn’t enough thermal energy in the environment to create vibrations that destroy the quantum properties of qubits.”

‘People are working really hard to try to find different mathematical problems that they think maybe quantum computers can’t crack.’

Another key moment in the quantum timeline came in 1994 when US mathematician Peter Shor showed that a quantum computer could crack encryption standards safeguarding everything from national intelligence systems to bank accounts. “He devised an algorithm, in theory, that he would need to run on a quantum computer,” says Bartlett. “And if you could build a quantum computer of sufficient size, then yeah, all information security falls apart.” Cybersecurity experts call that scenario Q-Day. “At the moment, people are working really hard to try to find different mathematical problems that they think maybe quantum computers can’t crack,” says Bartlett.

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In 2001, IBM made a seven-qubit device controlled through radio frequency pulses to demonstrate Shor’s Theorem. IBM’s prototype wasn’t given a huge task, managing to calculate that three times five was … wait for it ... 15. Yet this was considered a great success, even if it had shades of the famous supercomputer Deep Thought from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which ponders the question of “life, the universe and everything” for thousands of years before giving the answer: 42.(Adams also dreamed up the Infinite Improbability Drive for a spaceship called the Heart of Gold, which used quantum theory to allow it to cross through every point in the universe simultaneously, allowing interstellar travel without all that “tedious mucking about in hyperspace”.)

Then, in 2019, Google claimed its 54-qubit Sycamore processor had performed a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years – a breakthrough some breathlessly likened to the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903. Others were more sceptical, saying it would be many more years before quantum computers would have enough qubits – and be stable enough – to do anything actually useful. IBM said it could simulate Google’s experiment in two-and-a-half days on a “normal” computer, albeit if it had access to the Oak Ridge Summit supercomputer, a beast occupying an area the size of two basketball courts. IBM’s shimmering Eagle, meanwhile, had just 127 qubits; its successors, Osprey and now Condor, have pushed the bar to over 1000 and it plans for 1386 qubits in its Kookaburra in 2025.

Yet most of these devices are still basically proofs of concept, says Morello, the first step to manufacturing and miniaturising, as we saw with today’s transistor-based computers, which started out as rooms full of valves and cables. In the post-World War II era, says Andrew Doherty, “computers took up office floors of buildings in Manhattan and people put paper cards into them to program them. Out came numbers that even my childhood pocket calculator could have calculated right.” Many hundreds of billions of dollars have gone into developing computer technology, in packaging it for convenience and getting the components to work reliably, he says. “That whole engineering thing has got to grow up around these quantum technologies.”

Already, Marcus Doherty’s Quantum Brilliance has installed a quantum computer at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth and is about to export computers, at this stage for customers to experiment with quantum computing and work out how to make it useful. In the future, finding commercial applications for a quantum computer will require tailoring it, at least initially, says UNSW’s Maja Cassidy, a former quantum researcher for Microsoft. “People have to go in and understand a company’s problem, how they’re using classical computing and … work out what section might be enhanced by the quantum computer.”

Who is leading the quantum race?

China is the only other nation giving the United States a run for its money. Its leader, Xi Jinping, put accelerating quantum technology in his 2021 five-year plan. McKinsey & Company estimates China has spent at least $15.3 billion in public funds on quantum research. That partly came to fruition in April with the Chinese Academy of Science’s unveiling of a 504-qubit chip, still half the size of IBM’s biggest.

For its part, Australia got a head start with quantum research in the 1990s. Today, two major spinoffs from UNSW research are pursuing silicon-based quantum computing: Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), led by Professor Michelle Simmons, and Diraq, led by Professor Andrew Dzurak. SQC’s approach involves embedding phosphorus atoms within a wafer of silicon. Dzurak’s approach involves trapping electrons on silicon transistors. Both have the advantage of silicon chips already being ubiquitous. “Today, in our phones and our laptops, the silicon chips that are in those have upwards of a billion transistors on them,” says Dzurak. “The benefit of the technology that we’ve developed is that we are also able to get millions, and ultimately billions, of quantum bits onto a single silicon chip.”

‘Computers as we know them today are an absolutely mind-blowing achievement. So any technology that has the ambition of being an alternative or being better than that has a phenomenally high bar to clear.’

Other leading players in Australia include Q-CTRL, which is working on controlling and enhancing quantum hardware; quantum security company QuintessenceLabs; and Doherty’s Quantum Brilliance, which used its synthetic diamonds in the world-first integration of a two-qubit quantum device into a supercomputer at room temperature in 2022.

Meanwhile, out of the University of Queensland came early gains in “photonic” quantum computing, which harnesses particles of light – photons – as qubits. In April, the federal and Queensland governments jointly set aside $940 million in share purchases, grants and loans for PsiQuantum, a Silicon Valley company whose founders include Australian professors Jeremy O’Brien and Terry Rudolph. Unlike ions or electrons, photons are not charged, Bartlett says, so are not sent haywire by electromagnetic forces – but they are hard to manipulate and measure.

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Another approach involves “trapped ion” quantum computing, pursued by US company IonQ: physicists take an atom, flick off an electron so it is positively charged, then suspend the resulting ion within an electromagnetic field and manipulate the ion with lasers. But Bartlett says this approach will be hard to scale, given the technology to suspend millions of ion qubits doesn’t yet exist.

In April, the federal government also announced $18 million for the University of Sydney to establish Quantum Australia, a research consortium between several universities headed by Bartlett. “It used to be a small research community,” he says. “You absolutely needed to speak the common language of everyone else, which were the rules of physics. Now we are really seeing quite a bit of specialisation.”

Even if quantum computers develop practical uses, they will likely live in vast, super-cooled server farms where land and power are cheap. We’ll communicate with them through our everyday devices, much as we download and upload data from cloud servers, Netflix, TikTok, DropBox, whatever, today. The real challenge for quantum computing, says Morello, is that the alternative is “really, really good”. “Computers as we know them today are an absolutely mind-blowing achievement. So any technology that has the ambition of being an alternative or being better than that has a phenomenally high bar to clear.”

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The country is also home to a number of significant quantum computing companies, including Quantum Brilliance, which is working with synthetic diamonds for quantum computing.

What are important areas in quantum research?

implementations of quantum processors
new types of qubits

Overall, the development of quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field, with a number of companies and countries investing heavily in research and development to gain a competitive edge.

As the field continues to evolve, it is likely that we will see significant advancements in the coming years, with potential applications in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and logistics.

What fields can quantum computers advance?

In fact, the quantum computing market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.89% from 2022 to 2032, with the market valued at USD 234.06 billion by 2032.

This growth will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing demand for quantum computing systems, and the development of new technologies and applications.

As such, it is likely that quantum computing will play an increasingly important role in the global economy in the coming years, with significant potential for growth and development.

The US, Japan, and Canada have shown interest in China's "Benyuan Wukong" quantum computer, and China aims to develop its own quantum chip industry chain and computing power network.

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IDC expects $16.4 billion investments in quantum computing by 2027, and the global investments in quantum computing are expected to grow at 11.5% annually.

Quantum technologies can transform communication networks by making them more secure, and provide a springboard in computational performance for certain problems.

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Content: McKinsey's Technology Trends for 2023

According to McKinsey Technology Council, “Generative AI is poised to add as much as $4.4 trillion in economic value.” The report also mentions that trust architectures and digital identity grew the most out of last year’s 14 trends, increasing by nearly 50 percent. Investments in other trends such as applied AI, advanced connectivity, and cloud and edge have declined. Since these technologies have applications in most industries their mainstream adoption will continue to grow.

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NEW DELHI: Lately, in 2023, there has been a resurgence of enthusiasm in people around the development of technology and its potential to uplift businesses and catalyze processes. In this process, generative AI is occupying center stage currently and is primarily responsible for this technological renaissance. This can further develop sustainable and inclusive growth which can then solve global complex challenges.

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Amongst the new and notable trends, Generative AI is a trend that has made a loud entrance and has already proven how transformative it can be for businesses. It represents the frontier of AI and builds upon technologies such as applied AI and machine learning. According to McKinsey Technology Council, “Generative AI is poised to add as much as $4.4 trillion in economic value.” The report also mentions that trust architectures and digital identity grew the most out of last year’s 14 trends, increasing by nearly 50 percent. Investments in other trends such as applied AI, advanced connectivity, and cloud and edge have declined. Since these technologies have applications in most industries their mainstream adoption will continue to grow.

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According to the report, cloud and edge computing are the future of bioengineering and have shown steady increases and have expanded use cases across industries. Currently, edge computing has over 500 use cases across industries and is expected to show further growth. Quantum technology is also growing but it is a nascent technology. The four industries that will see the earliest impacts of quantum computing as per the report are automotive, chemicals, financial services, and life sciences. These industries can stand to see a growth of $1.3 trillion by 2035 by strategically investing in quantum computing as per the report.

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Over the years the talent dynamics in tech have changed considerably. There is a gap between available talent and the demand for talent with a particular skill set. According to a survey conducted by McKinsey, 3.5 million job postings in these tech trends of the skills in greatest demand have less than half as many qualified practitioners, for each posting as the global average. According to the report, “In the coming decade, 20 to 30 percent of the time that workers spend on the job could be transformed by automation technologies, leading to significant shifts in the skills required to be successful.” Job postings in fields related to tech trends grew 15% between 2021 and 2022 even though overall global postings decreased by 13%. Applied AI and next-gen software development collectively posted over one million jobs between 2018 and 2022.

The silver lining, however, for practitioners is that employers are still facing challenges to find enough talent to keep up with their demands. There is a shortage of qualified professionals in fields such as AI, quantum technologies, space technologies, and electrification and renewables. Further, the talent crunch is particularly, pronounced for cloud computing and industrialized machine learning.

These are the 15 tech trends as identified by the McKinsey Technology Council for 2023:

Applied AI: Models trained in machine learning can solve classification, prediction, and control problems and automate activities, add or augment capabilities and offerings, and make better decisions. Applied AI has proven useful for several non-tech users and will continue to do so. The report suggests that there has been an increase of 6% in job postings in the field of applied AI from 2021 to 2022. There has also been an equity investment of $104 billion and the industries that are affected by this are aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, chemicals, construction and building materials, consumer packaged goods, education, electric power, natural gas and utilities, financial services, healthcare systems, and services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, metals and mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and medical products, public and social sectors, real estate, retail, and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend has been rated a 4 out of 5.

Industrializing machine learning: An ecosystem of software and hardware solutions has enabled practices that accelerate and derisk the development, deployment, and maintenance of machine learning solutions. This is primarily used for performance monitoring, stability, and ongoing improvements. There has been an increase of 23% in job postings in this field from 2021 to 2022. Further, there has also been a $3 billion equity investment. The industries that are affected by this trend are aerospace and defense, automotive and assembly, electric power, natural gas and utilities, financial services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, metals and mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and medical products, and telecommunications .T he adoption rate of this trend has been rated a 2 out of 5.

Generative AI: Generative AI is used for automating, augmenting, and accelerating work by tapping into unstructured mixed-modality data sets to enable the creation of new content in various forms, such as text, video, code, and even protein sequences. There has been a 44% increase in job postings in the field between 2021 to 2022. There has also been a $5 billion equity investment in generative AI and the industries affected by this trend are consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare systems and services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and medical products, retail and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend has been rated a 1 out of 5.

Next-generation software development: New software tools that enable modern code-deployment pipelines and automated code generation, testing, refactoring, and translation, can improve application quality and development processes. There has been a 25% increase in job postings in this field between 2021 to 2022. There has also been a $2 billion equity investment in this field and the industries affected by this trend are financial services and information technology. The adoption rate of this trend is rated a 2 out of 5.

Trust architectures and digital identity: Organizations can build, scale, and maintain the trust of stakeholders in the use of their data and digital-enabled products and services because of digital trust technologies. This allows users to exchange information and data through trusted service systems. There has been a 16% increase in job postings in this field between 2021 and 2022 and there has also been a $47 billion equity investment. The industries that are affected by this trend are aerospace and defense, consumer packaged goods, education, financial services, healthcare systems, and services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical and medical products, public and social sectors, retail and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend is rated a 2 out of 5.

Web3: Web3 includes platforms and applications that enable shifts toward a future, decentralized internet with open standards and protocols while protecting digital-ownership rights. It’s not just cryptocurrency investments. It’s a transformative way to design software for specific purposes. This gives users greater ownership of their data and inspires new business models. The third generation of the web is a network of meaningfully linked data that is meant to be decentralized. There has been a 40% increase in job postings in this field and a $62 billion equity investment. The industries that are affected by this trend are financial services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, and retail. The adoption rate for this trend is rated 1 out of 5.

Advanced connectivity:
Wireless low-power networks, 5G/6G cellular, Wi-Fi 6 and 7, low-Earth-orbit satellites, and other technologies support a host of digital solutions that can drive growth and productivity across industries today and tomorrow. There has been a 7% increase in job postings in this field and a 118 trillion dollar equity investment in this trend. The industries that are affected by this trend are aerospace and defense, automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, construction and building materials, electric power, natural gas, and utilities, healthcare systems and services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, metals and mining, oil and gas, retail and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend is rated at a 4 out of 5.

Immersive reality technologies: Sensing technologies and spatial computing are used to help users “see the world differently” through mixed or augmented reality or “see a different world” through virtual reality as part of immersive-reality technologies. This technology stimulates reality and creates a distinct experience for the users. There has been a 10% increase in job postings and a $16 billion equity investment in the field. This trend will affect industries like aerospace and defense, automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, construction and building materials, consumer packaged goods, education, electric power, natural gas and utilities, healthcare systems and services, information technology and electronics, media and entertainment, real estate and retail. The adoption rate for this trend is rated 1 out of 5.

Cloud and edge computing: Cloud and edge computing allow users to distribute workloads across locations, such as hyper-scale remote data centers, regional centers, and local nodes, to improve latency, data-transfer costs, adherence to data sovereignty regulations, autonomy over data, and security. There has been a 12% increase in job postings in this field between 2021 and 2022 and a $84 billion equity investment. The industries that are affected by this are aerospace and defense, automotive and assembly, chemicals, electric power, natural gas and utilities, financial services, healthcare systems, and services, information technology and electronics, manufacturing, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals and medical products, retail, and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend is rated at a 4 out of 5.

Quantum technologies: Quantum technologies provide a springboard in computational performance for certain problems and transform communication networks by making them more secure. There has been an increase in job postings in this field by 12% between 2021 to 2022 and a $2 billion equity investment has also been made towards this up until 2022. The industries that are affected by this trend are aerospace and defense, automotive and assembly, chemicals, financial services, information technology and electronics, metals and mining, oils and gas, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. The adoption rate of this trend is rated at 0 out of 5.

Future of mobility: Mobility aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of land and air transportation of people and goods using autonomous, connected, electric, and shared solutions. There has been a 15% increase in job postings in this field between 2021 to 2022 and there has also been a $194 billion equity investment. The industries affected by this trend are automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, electric power, natural gas and utilities, financial services, oil and gas, public and social sectors, and retail. The adoption of this trend is rated at a 2 out of 5.

Future of bioengineering: Converging biological and information technologies to improve health and human performance, transform food value chains, and create innovative products and services. There has been a 19% decline in job postings in this field and a $43 billion equity investment as well. The industries that are affected by this trend are agriculture, chemicals, consumer packaged goods, healthcare systems and services, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. The adoption rate for this trend is rated a 3 out of 5.

Future of space technologies: Advances and cost reductions across satellites, launchers, and habitation technologies enable innovative space operations and services. There has been a 16% increase in job postings in this field from 2021 to 2022 and a $6 billion equity investment in this trend. The industries affected by it are aerospace and defense and telecommunications. The adoption rate of this trend is rated at 2 out of 5.

Electrification and renewables: Electrification and renewable energy drive towards net-zero commitments. These include solar-, wind-, and hydro-powered renewables and other renewables; nuclear energy; hydrogen; sustainable fuels; and electric-vehicle charging. There has been a 27% increase in job postings in this field from 2021 to 2022 and there has also been an equity investment of $288 billion in this trend. The industries affected by this trend are agriculture, automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, chemicals, construction and building materials, electric power, natural gas and utilities, metals and mining, oil and gas, and real estate.

Climate technologies beyond electrification and renewables:
Climate technologies include carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS); carbon removals; natural climate solutions; circular technologies; alternative proteins and agriculture; water and biodiversity solutions and adaptation; and technologies to track net-zero progress. There has been an 8% increase in job postings in this field from 2021 to 2022 and a $86 billion equity investment in this field up until 2022. The industries affected by this trend are agriculture, automotive and assembly, aviation, travel and logistics, chemicals, construction and building materials, electric power, natural gas and utilities, metals and mining, oil and gas, and real estate.
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Boston-based quantum computer QuEra joins Amazon's cloud for public access

While there are various technologies for creating so-called quantum bits or qubits where the computations happen, QuEra's qubits use neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber and use lasers to cool and control them. It is the first neutral atom quantum computer to join Braket, which offers five other quantum computers on the cloud - Rigetti Computing, IonQ, D-Wave, Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Oxford Quantum Circuits.

Quantum computer startup QuEra, born from researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said on Tuesday its computer is now accessible to the public through Amazon.com cloud's quantum computer service Braket.

While there are various technologies for creating so-called quantum bits or qubits where the computations happen, QuEra's qubits use neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber and use lasers to cool and control them. It is the first neutral atom quantum computer to join Braket, which offers five other quantum computers on the cloud - Rigetti Computing, IonQ, D-Wave, Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Oxford Quantum Circuits.

The 256-qubit computer is called Aquila and is physically based in Boston, said Alexander Keesling, CEO of QuEra. "One of the great things about this machine is that you can program the qubit layout so you don't have to use all of them...You can build different mini clusters of different atoms to parallelize the computation even further," said Keesling about Aquila.

Richard Moulds, Braket's general manager, said the service makes it easy and cost effective for researchers to test out different types of quantum computers. "You might run an algorithm that could run for a couple of hours and it costs you a couple of hundred dollars. Or you might run an algorithm that would run for half a second and cost you 30 cents," he said.

Moulds said there are at least 25 companies that have a quantum computer, and Braket is looking for interesting technologies and companies that are operationally ready, including from a security point of view, to invite them to the service.

Braket, which has been up and running for over two years, has a software layer that allows researchers to use their algorithms for any of the quantum computers on the cloud.

Amazon is also developing its own quantum computer, said Moulds.

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implementations of quantum processors
new types of qubits

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