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🔵 The Quantum Insider Weekly | India On on the Grow. IonQ in Acquisition Mode. And More News in Quantum.

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FROM THE EDITOR.

Big news tends to emerge from big conferences. Quantum World Congress 2025 — held in the Washington D.C. area — was the epicenter for news this week.

Wes Moore, governor of Maryland, might have sealed the biggest deal of the event. Microsoft announced it would build a quantum research center at the University of Maryland. To the north, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that SUNY Stony Brook would receive $300 million to build a quantum research center.

Are you noticing a theme?

You can’t look at quantum — and many other deep tech industries — as an island. Quantum research requires diverse minds working simultaneously across industries and fields. And it needs a lot of money to fuel those operations.

It’s not just happening in the U.S., India is not pausing on its quantum ambitions. The nation’s policy makers and business leaders took important steps to funding those efforts this week.

Our take on that — and links to the other stories and more analysis — are below.

Have a great weekend!

— Matt, Chief Content Officer at The Quantum Insider

INSIDER BRIEF.

ANALYST NOTES.

The Noteworthy & Nuanced

Alice & Bob are no longer just 2 people! The company is planning to hire 100 new employees by mid 2026, nearly doubling its current 150-person team. Backed by a €100M Series B round and a $50M Paris quantum lab, the company will add 90 technical roles across physics, error correction, firmware, and software, alongside 10 business positions.

Diamonds are now even more captivating! Researchers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Humboldt University in Berlin have developed a method to capture up to 80% of photons from NV centers in diamonds. By embedding nanodiamonds into hybrid nanoantennas and precisely positioning them, the team directed photon emission instead of scattering.

This opening sentence also has an exclamation point! Delft Circuits has published a roadmap showing how its Cri/oFlex cables can overcome quantum computing’s connectivity bottleneck and scale systems to thousands of qubits. Offering up to 8x greater channel density than coaxial systems today (targeting 32x within 18 months), the technology also improves cryogenic reliability and performance. By 2029, Cri/oFlex aims to scale from 256 to 4,096 channels per loader. — Alan Kanapin, Analyst at The Quantum Insider

The Research Rundown

Check out this week’s handpicked quantum research. These are studies headed for real-world impact: improving accuracy, reducing latency, using fewer resources, or solving problems that classical methods struggle with. These are early developments, but they hint at where quantum might earn its keep.

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➡️ India is moving to make Amaravati, a planned city in Andhra Pradesh, the cradle of its quantum ecosystem and a potential player in global development.

➡️ The Andhra Pradesh government announced a ₹40 crore ($4.5 million ) reference facility for benchmarking and testing quantum components — a first for India.

➡️ IBM and Tata Consultancy Services will anchor the initiative, while Amber Enterprises pledged ₹200 crore ($23 million) for a quantum cryogenic components facility.

➡️ Together, the facilities aim to reduce India’s dependence on foreign vendors and support the country’s National Quantum Mission, launched in 2023 with a budget of ₹6,000 crore over eight years.

➡️ The announcements position India as a potential quantum powerhouse — but the risk remains of turning too inward without linking to global ecosystems.

Analyst Commentary

India is making a bold move to elevate itself as a serious contender in the quantum race. Amaravati Quantum Valley, with its mix of government backing, global industry partnerships, and private investment, shows that India is serious about building sovereign capability. There are cautions however. (To be clear, I added that as a dramatic statement so you’ll read the whole piece.)

The centerpiece of the state announcement is a ₹40 crore ($4.5 million) reference facility designed for testing, benchmarking, and characterizing quantum components. This may sound technical, but it’s critical infrastructure. Without such facilities, India’s startups and labs have had to rely on foreign vendors, a bottleneck that slows progress. Benchmarking ensures that quantum processors, chips, and associated hardware actually perform to standard — a necessary step before scaling toward practical systems.

Backing comes from India’s Department of Science and Technology and the National Quantum Mission. Strategic anchors IBM and Tata Consultancy Services bring not only credibility but pathways into global supply chains.

The Cryogenic Facility

In parallel, Amber Enterprises announced a ₹200 crore ($23 million) investment in a cryogenic components facility. Cryogenics may not sound glamorous, but it’s essential for superconducting quantum computers, which must operate at near-absolute zero. India’s ability to build such components domestically reduces dependency on imports while supporting the broader ecosystem of quantum hardware manufacturing.

Amber Enterprises’ bet signals that Indian industry is ready to go beyond research and into building the physical tools that quantum demands.

Why India Could Be a Quantum Powerhouse

India brings several advantages. Let’s begin with sheer size. With 1.4 billion people and a government willing to fund emerging tech at scale, India can mobilize resources quickly.

It’s not just size, it’s also the size of the talent. India produces world-class physicists, mathematicians, and engineers, many of whom already contribute to global quantum research.

Finally, the National Quantum Mission and state-level projects like Amaravati Quantum Valley show that political leadership is taking quantum seriously.

This combination gives India a credible shot at building one of the most dynamic quantum ecosystems in the world.

The Risks of Insularity

The opportunity, however, comes with a caution. Quantum technology is inherently global: hardware supply chains span continents, algorithms are open-source and collaborative, and commercial adoption depends on international standards. If India builds too inwardly, it risks fragmenting its progress from the global system.

The challenge for Amaravati — and for all of these national quantum efforts — is to strike a balance: building sovereign capability without walling itself off. Connecting Amaravati’s initiatives to international collaborations, cross-border research, and global commercialization pathways will determine whether the project becomes a national showcase or a global linchpin.

DATA SPOTLIGHT.

PacketLight Networks and NEC demonstrated quantum key distribution over a 400G dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network using a dual-fiber setup. They integrated NEC’s QKD system with PacketLight’s PL-4000M 600G Muxponder, achieving 100% data throughput and low latency, verified via a 100GbE tester. The QKD ran over a dedicated parallel fiber, maintaining quantum signal integrity. The result: a cost-effective, scalable quantum-safe model with zero performance tradeoffs on existing high-capacity infrastructure.

INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS.

🔢 Oxford Quantum Circuits and Digital Realty have launched the first Quantum-AI Data Centre in New York City, integrating OQC’s superconducting GENESIS quantum computer with NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips inside Digital Realty’s JFK10 facility.

🤝 The UK and US have launched the Tech Prosperity Deal, a joint initiative on AI, quantum, and nuclear technologies backed by £31 billion in private investment. The partnership will expand UK data centers and supercomputing while creating a joint UK-US quantum task force.

🇸🇬 QAI Ventures has launched its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore in partnership with Enterprise Singapore. Starting with the GenQ Quantum Hackathon in October 2025, the firm will roll out a five-month QuantumAI Accelerator and a Venture Building Program in January 2026.

🗽 New York State is investing $300 million to establish the Quantum Research and Innovation Hub at SUNY Stony Brook, featuring a Quantum Institute, hybrid Quantum Data Center, and Quantum Education Consortium.

🥼 Microsoft will open a quantum research center in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District, providing early access to its Majorana 1 topological qubit chip and encouraging collaboration across government, academia, and industry.

💰️ IonQ will acquire Vector Atomic, a quantum sensing company with over $200M in government contracts, through an all-stock deal. The acquisition adds high-performance clocks, gravimeters, and inertial sensors to IonQ’s platform, making it the only company integrating quantum computing, networking, and sensing.

🖥️ Infleqtion announced a new neutral atom–based architecture for its Sqale quantum computer, targeting 1,000+ logical qubits by 2030 and updating its roadmap to 30 logical qubits by 2026. The company also achieved the first hardware execution of Shor’s algorithm using logical qubits.

🎒 Q-CTRL has partnered with QUCAN to integrate its Black Opal learning platform into QC101, a global online quantum education program launching during the International Year of Quantum. Starting September 27, 2025, the program offers live lectures, AI-assisted modules, and industry-recognized certificates.

🔗 ORCA Computing, working with Imperial College London and the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, demonstrated the first integration of photonic quantum processors with NVIDIA GPUs in a live HPC environment via the CUDA-Q platform. The blueprint shows how standard rack-mounted photonic processors can be deployed alongside GPUs.

🌕️ Bluefors has signed a deal with Interlune to purchase up to 10,000 liters of helium-3 annually from 2028–2037, securing a critical resource for quantum dilution refrigerators. Since helium-3 is scarce on Earth but abundant on the Moon, Interlune plans to harvest it via lunar extraction.

📚️ Riverlane has launched Deltakit, the first open-source platform for quantum error correction that combines a developer SDK with codes, decoders, noise models, experiments, and an interactive textbook.

🔗 QphoX and Rigetti Computing secured a $5.8M, three-year AFRL contract to integrate Rigetti’s superconducting qubits with QphoX’s microwave-to-optical transducers, with a goal to enable quantum state transfer over optical fibers.

🏗️ Anyon Systems and C2MI signed an MOU to co-develop a new quantum fabrication facility in Bromont, Québec, set to open in 2026. The facility will specialize in superconducting quantum chip production, nanofabrication, and 3D packaging.

⚡️ EPB Quantum, in collaboration with ORNL, NVIDIA, and IonQ, has added an NVIDIA DGX system to its Chattanooga center to build hybrid quantum-classical solutions. The project will use these resources to optimize U.S. power grid operations.

🤝 IQM Quantum Computers and Taiwan’s Scientek signed a strategic reseller agreement following the installation of the first full-stack superconducting quantum computer at TSRI. Scientek will market and support IQM’s on-prem and cloud systems in Taiwan and APAC.

🖥️ Quantum Machines, Arque Systems, and Jülich Supercomputing Centre deployed the first NVIDIA DGX Quantum-powered system at Europe’s top exascale supercomputer, JUPITER. The platform integrates NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper Superchip, Quantum Machines’ OPX1000 controller, and Arque’s 5-qubit processor, .

EVENTS.

Sept. 24-25 -- Q2B25 Paris at Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France.

Sept. 29-Oct. 1 -- Quantum.Tech Europe is taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The event will bring together the whole quantum supply chain to drive forward the commercial applications of Quantum Technologies.

Oct. 6-10 -- 8th International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists (YQIS25) will take place in Barcelona, Spain. YQIS is a conference series organized by and for PhD students and early-career researchers working across the broad field of quantum information.

Oct. 8 -- The Fifth Anniversary of The City Quantum & AI Summit will take place at the Mansion House in the City of London this year with the subtitle Race for Growth.

Oct. 8 -- The Quantum Insider, in partnership with the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County and Quantum Coast Capital, will host Quantum Beach 2025, an officially recognized event of the International Year of Quantum (IYQ2025). Register here.

Oct. 13-17 -- Quantum Reference Frames 2025 will bring together leading experts on quantum reference frames and the many related subjects in the first focused event in the new era of quantum frame covariance. QRF 2025 is co-funded by the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime consortium.

Oct. 19-21 -- Q+AI will be held in New York City. This event will uncover the coming wave of Quantum + AI, include 50+ speakers, daily mentoring sessions and 16 sessions, one continuous track.

Nov. 10-12 -- European Quantum Technologies Conference 2025 will be held at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dec. 1-4 -- QUEST-IS 2025 Quantum Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Industry and Services From Quantum Engineering to Applications for Citizens. EDF Lab, Paris-Saclay, France.

Dec. 17-18 -- Science Diplomacy - Bridging divides in a fragmented world will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference explores how science diplomacy can bridge divides and promote innovation, competitiveness, and international cooperation.