First Batch of Entrants to DARPA Stage C Announced

Quoting from the article: "The following companies (listed with their qubit technology approach), have been selected for Stage C: - Atom Computing: Boulder, Colorado (scalable arrays of neutral atoms) - Diraq: Sydney, Australia (silicon CMOS spin qubits) - IBM: Yorktown Heights, New York (quantum computing with modular superconducting processors) - IonQ: College Park, Maryland (trapped-ion quantum computing) These organizations join Microsoft and PsiQuantum, which advanced to Stage C following participation in a pilot precursor to QBI, the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC)." Pretty interesting list. And various qubit modalities are represented so there isn't evidence that any particular modality is dead yet. It also doesn't preclude additional companies from entering in the future. It's good sign for the industry that any company at all has advanced to Stage C. submitted by /u/Ninin- [link] [comments]