Qualcomm and Cisco are here to enter the field of quantum computing

Quantum machines (QM), an Israeli quantum computing company, is building a classic hardware and software infrastructure to help run quantum machines. Following the announcement of obtaining a round B financing of US $50 million in September this year, on October 26, the company disclosed a new investor - Qualcomm ventures. This is the continuation of round B financing, but the amount is not disclosed.

As the enterprise venture capital (CVC) Company of Qualcomm, the world's largest mobile phone chip developer, Qualcomm venture capital has invested in more than 150 companies in 5g, artificial intelligence, automobile, Internet of things, consumer and enterprise cloud. This investment in QM is Qualcomm's first investment in quantum computing.

Since its inception, QM has become a leading provider of quantum computing control and operating systems. The full stack quantum choreography platform developed by the company provides a solution combining software and hardware to support a new method to control and operate quantum processors.

Boaz peer, senior investment director of Qualcomm venture capital Europe and Israel, said: "looking ahead, we believe that quantum computing will be an important technology that will redefine many industries, such as artificial intelligence, network security and cloud computing. We are happy to invest in QM to help push the quantum computing revolution forward."

Dr. Itamar Sivan, co-founder and CEO of QM, said: "we are very proud to work with Qualcomm because we believe that their desire and commitment to promote innovation match our efforts to promote the transformation and development of the quantum computing industry."

In fact, Qualcomm has carried out research on quantum computing. For example, in March this year, Qualcomm artificial intelligence research team released a paper "Hinton in neural networks: quantum field theory view of deep learning". They proposed a method to directly map a deep neural network to a light quantum computer.

In addition to Qualcomm, Cisco, another established technology company, also entered the field of quantum computing this year.

In February this year, Alireza Shabani, a former senior research scientist at Google's quantum artificial intelligence laboratory and lecturer in the Department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), announced on twitter that he had started working in Cisco, adding that the reason why he joined Cisco came from the company's long-term interest in quantum technology, mainly quantum computing and quantum communication.

In fact, in China, in addition to the pioneers such as Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and Huawei, two large technology companies began to layout quantum computing in the past year.

On November 25 last year, at the 2020 Jingdong global science and technology Explorer conference, Jingdong exploration and Research Institute was officially established and will deeply cultivate six digital technology fields such as "artificial intelligence", "quantum computing", "data science, engineering and management" and "decentralized computing".

In August this year, JD disclosed its first important achievement. The quantum computing research team of JD exploration and Research Institute has proposed the world's first quantum parallel processing framework qudio based on classical cloud platform and quantum computing equipment as terminal, which can fully schedule existing quantum computing resources to solve large-scale tasks beyond classical computing.

Although the byte beating of the tiktok parent company is not official, it has long been shown that it is laying out quantum computation, for example, the byte beating starts to recruit researchers and interns in the direction of quantum computing. In September this year, a paper showed that byte hopping, as the first participating mechanism, designed a quantum and classical hybrid algorithm, which can efficiently simulate and calculate the characteristics of small molecules.

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