Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending November 22, 2025

This week delivered a powerful surge of advancements in quantum computing that demand attention—from Hong Kong deploying the city’s first chip-based quantum network to IBM and Cisco unveiling plans for a distributed, fault-tolerant quantum infrastructure. Funding accelerated, hardware reached new milestones, and post-quantum defenses hardened. These developments aren’t hype; they’re the building blocks of the next computing era. Here’s what you can’t afford to miss.Cash is flowing like a rogue wave: University of Nebraska snags $2.5M from the DOE to tame ferroelectric oxides for energy-efficient quantum devices, while QSimulate raises over $11M in seed funding to accelerate drug discovery simulations 1000× faster with QUELO v2.3. Meanwhile, SEALSQ confirms $17.5M–$20M revenue guidance for 2025 and projects 50–100% growth in 2026, and D-Wave redeems warrants for $54.6M in fresh capital to fuel real-world annealing deployments.The era of vaporware is over: PolyU successfully completes Hong Kong’s first chip-based quantum network over 55 km, delivering 45 kbps of unbreakable keys, while Purdue unveils a single-photon switch that could push photonic computing into the terahertz realm. At the same time, JQI demonstrates passive color-conversion chips for reliable RGB quantum lasers, NERSC runs the largest-ever quantum chip simulation on Perlmutter using 7,000 GPUs in a single day, and QSolid opens its 10-qubit system to external cloud users for the first time.The quantum internet just got closer: University of Stuttgart transmits quantum information between mismatched photons over 10 m (with 36 km entanglements already achieved), IBM and Cisco announce a multi-year plan to link cryostats and build fault-tolerant distributed systems within five years, IonQ acquires Skyloom to boost quantum networking throughput by 500%, and UAE’s TII and Space42 launch the first space-to-ground QKD demonstration at the Dubai Airshow.Q-Day prep went into overdrive: Palo Alto Networks and IBM reveal a joint quantum-safe solution launching early 2026, SEALSQ and Quobly partner on NIST-proof silicon spin-qubit chips, Quantum Xchange’s Phio TX earns SANS Institute validation, and McKinsey forecasts $400B–$600B in banking value from quantum-accelerated fraud detection by 2035.The talent pipeline is exploding: Investopedia lists the top degrees for six-figure quantum careers, Rensselaer launches a new quantum computing minor, Africa Quantum launches the pan-African “Hack the Horizon” challenge, and Flapmax + IBM host Ghana’s inaugural quantum-AI summit.Hybrid systems stole the show: NVIDIA rolls out NVQLink connecting Grace Blackwell GPUs to QPUs across 12+ supercomputing centers, QuEra showcases neutral-atom + HPC integration at SC25, ORCA and SiC Systems win the 2025 HPC Innovation Award for quantum-accelerated agentic AI, and Alice & Bob lands on Sifted’s Future 50 with 417% growth thanks to cat qubits.This week’s frenzy screams quantum’s tipping from lab curiosity to global game-changer—networks linking, cash flooding, threats armoring up—miss the momentum, and you’ll qubit your chance at the revolution.See the full week of articles in the Weekly Archives Pages found at The Qubit Report. Also from The Qubit Report archives is the full, final page of The Qubit Report from this week and the Weekly Round-Up from November 15, 2025.Our MissionPrivacy PolicyWebsite Terms of UseContact UsCopyright 2017-2025 | The Qubit Report | All Rights Reserved