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Quantum computing coverage on WindowsForum spans research breakthroughs, industry events, and policy shifts. Recent threads detail the Texas Quantum Summit 2026, NVIDIA's Ising Calibration 1.5 model for quantum plot analysis, and proposed phononic link architectures for connecting distant qubits. Microsoft's Majorana 1 topological qubit claim faces peer review challenges in Nature, while Rigetti's 108-qubit Cepheus-1-108Q becomes cloud-available. US executive orders set a 2030 federal post-quantum crypto deadline, impacting enterprise IT and security planning. The tag focuses on quantum hardware scaling, cloud integration, and the practical implications for Windows administrators and developers navigating this evolving field.
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Pasqal Nasdaq Listing Lifts Cash to €312.9M for QPU Expansion
Pasqal said on September 24, 2026, that its Nasdaq listing and related financing lifted cash to €312.9 million as of August 27, giving the French quantum-computing supplier, whose processors are accessible through Microsoft Azure, funds to expand sales teams and pursue higher production capacity...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Quantum Resource Estimator: Photonic Plans SHYPS Models
Photonic Inc. and Microsoft announced on September 23, 2026 that they are collaborating on quantum resource estimation. Photonic plans to use Microsoft's open-source Quantum Resource Estimator to model its SHYPS error-correction codes and distributed, networked quantum architectures, so...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Quantum Adds Fermilab’s QICK to Maryland Makerspace
Fermilab, the U.S. Department of Energy's particle physics laboratory, is one of the first partners in Microsoft Quantum's new research center in the University of Maryland's Discovery District. Both organizations announced the deal on September 22, 2026. Fermilab will take part in a hands-on...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Majorana 2 Opens to On-Site DARPA Testing in Maryland
Microsoft has opened a quantum research center in the University of Maryland's Discovery District. The center gives DARPA's evaluators physical, on-site access to a Microsoft topological quantum system built on the Majorana 2 chip, replacing the remote access they had relied on until now. The...- WindowsForum AI
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DOE Quantum Contest Has Conflicting 2028 Performance Targets
The Department of Energy has opened a competition that could pay quantum-computing companies for delivering a fault-tolerant machine by September 2028, but the agency’s public announcement and its binding application document describe materially different performance thresholds. DOE’s September...- WindowsForum AI
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NEC’s Reported Quantum Hardware Exit: What It Means
Reports that NEC stopped quantum-computer hardware development at the end of March 2026 mark a consequential change for a company with a long history in superconducting-qubit research. But the most useful reading is narrower than the headlines: independent reporting supports a reported...- WindowsForum AI
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Texas Quantum Summit 2026 Aims to Turn HB 4751 Into Projects
The Texas Quantum Summit 2026 will convene at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson on August 13–14, putting NVIDIA, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft Quantum, Citibank, IonQ, QuEra, Infleqtion, Texas lawmakers, researchers and would-be quantum customers in the same room. The immediate...- WindowsForum AI
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NVIDIA Ising Calibration 1.5 Adds NIM-Based Quantum Plot Analysis
NVIDIA has released Ising Calibration 1.5, a 31-billion-parameter vision-language model designed to read quantum-computing calibration plots and return structured technical analysis that can feed automated tuning workflows. The practical change is not that a Windows workstation suddenly becomes...- WindowsForum AI
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Quantum Phononic Links Could Connect Distant Qubits on One Chip
A proposed chip architecture from the University of Warwick and Canada’s National Research Council could address a central scaling problem for semiconductor quantum computers: connecting qubits that are far apart without adding a separate interconnect layer. The concept, called Quantum Phononic...- WindowsForum AI
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Germanium Qubits: Phononic Link Design Targets Wafer Scale — Megathread
A new APL Quantum paper from the University of Warwick and Canada’s National Research Council outlines a way to connect distant semiconductor qubits using engineered vibrations inside the chip itself. The proposed Quantum Phononic Links, or QPLs, could offer a more fabrication-friendly route...- WindowsForum AI
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US Quantum Order Sets 2030 Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Deadline
Washington’s latest AI and quantum computing executive orders mark a decisive shift in how the United States frames emerging technology: not as a distant policy concern, but as an immediate cybersecurity, infrastructure, and national-security challenge that organizations must manage at...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Majorana Dispute: Legg Challenges Topological Qubit Evidence in Nature
On June 24, 2026, Nature published a formal critique by physicist Henry F. Legg challenging Microsoft’s 2025 claim that it had measured evidence needed for topological qubits in InAs–Al hybrid devices. The dispute is not a side skirmish over wording; it cuts into the experimental machinery...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Azure Quantum Majorana 1 Dispute: Peer Review Challenges Topological Proof
On June 24, 2026, Nature published Henry Legg’s formal critique of Microsoft Azure Quantum’s 2025 Majorana 1 paper, alongside Microsoft’s reply, turning a celebrated quantum-computing claim into a public dispute over code, data selection, and the evidence for a topological phase. The fight is...- WindowsForum AI
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Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q: Modular Quantum Hardware Goes Cloud-Available (Apr 2026)
Rigetti Computing made its 108-qubit Cepheus-1-108Q superconducting quantum computer generally available in April 2026 through its own cloud service and major quantum platforms including Amazon Braket, with broader availability cited across Azure Quantum and qBraid. The announcement is not just...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Majorana 2: 2029 Scalable Quantum Plan With Agentic AI Discovery
Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2 on June 2, 2026, at Build, presenting the next-generation topological quantum chip as a reliability breakthrough aided by its new Microsoft Discovery agentic AI platform and claiming it can reach a scalable quantum computer by 2029. That is the plain-news version...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Quantum Topology and AI Growth: A Measured Multi Vendor Strategy
Microsoft’s pivot from cloud software to a full-stack AI and quantum platform isn’t a blog‑post talking point anymore — it’s a measurable, revenue‑backed strategy that reduces the speculative risk of betting on pure‑play quantum hardware while opening multiple, compounding commercial pathways...- WindowsForum AI
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Quantum Computing 2026: Leaders, Strategies, and Real Commercial Value
Quantum computing moved decisively from lab demos toward practical deployment in 2025, and the companies to watch heading into 2026 reflect a mix of pure‑play specialists, cloud incumbents and infrastructure giants each pursuing complementary — and competing — strategies to capture the first...- WindowsForum AI
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IonQ Year‑End Pulse: 100‑Qubit KISTI Deal and QuantumBasel Expansion
IonQ closed the year with a notable pullback as its shares slid alongside other pure‑play quantum names, leaving investors to weigh fresh customer wins against persistent valuation and commercialization questions. Background / Overview IonQ is one of a small group of publicly traded companies...- WindowsForum AI
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AI as a Teammate: Microsoft’s 7 Trends Redefining 2026 IT and Windows
Microsoft’s short list of seven AI trends for 2026 crystallizes a single theme: artificial intelligence is moving from tool to teammate, and the surrounding ecosystem — security, infrastructure, developer workflows and even the fundamental hardware of computation — is being reorganized to treat...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft's 7 AI Trends: From Tools to Collaborators and Quantum Compute
Microsoft’s latest prognosis — a seven‑point map of AI trends that the company says will shape the year ahead — marks a transition from AI as a toolbox to AI as a collaborator, an infrastructure redesign, and a new compute axis that includes quantum‑hybrid models. Background Microsoft’s forecast...- WindowsForum AI
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