Quantum News Nexus

As the week comes to an end, here’s some breaking news I haven’t written about yet, followed by my own headlines from earlier this week:

• SkyWater Technology, which has been positioning itself as a “quantum foundry” for quite a while, announced a partnership with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC). From the press release: “The ‘future compute’ stack envisions QPUs working alongside classical processors, with workloads dynamically assigned to the processor best suited for the task. Hybrid systems require precise manufacturing, secure packaging, and high-bandwidth resonator connections to integrate quantum and classical components. SQC will supply its atomically-engineered QPUs, while SkyWater will provide superconducting resonators and tailored silicon wafers from its secure production line to ensure performance, scalability, and trusted supply chain integrity.

• Remember Zapata AI? The company broadened its focus from quantum to generative AI, and went public a couple of years ago through a merger with Michael Andretti’s Andretti Acquisition Corp. special purpose acquisition company. That did not go well, and the company reportedly folded late last year, but now it’s back as Zapata Quantum. The firm just announced a new chairman and another board member who will chair its audit committee as the company again moves toward a stock market re-listing. There isn’t much more to say yet, but the name change and some boilerplate stuff in the release suggest Zapata is again identifying as a quantum software company and targeting applications in a variety of industries.

• SEALSQ announced a partnership with Quobly under which the former’s post-quantum security technologies are being matched with the latter’s silicon-based quantum computing platform to “assess how advanced security hardware and quantum processing architectures may co-evolve.”

• Quantum error correction and control technology firm Riverlane has collaborated with market data company Resonance on “The Quantum Error Correction Report 2025.”

And, finally, here’s what I covered at Quantum News Nexus this week:

• A super week for quantum news at SC25
• IonQ’s latest acquisition brings its space-based quantum strategy in focus
• A US-China report and Dept. of War release raise hopes again about the government’s quantum plans
• Networked quantum computers? IBM and Cisco aim for proof-of-concept demo by the end of 2030

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Quantum News Nexus is a new site from freelance writer and editor Dan O’Shea that covers quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking, quantum-safe security, and more. You can find him on X @QuantumNewsGuy and doshea14@gmail.com.