Priced at $15 million, another quantum computer order
Spain's Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) has announced that it will purchase a quantum computer from Fujitsu for about $15 million. CESGA's new purchase is expected to be operational in the second half of 2023.
D-Wave was the first company to sell a quantum computer, selling one to Lockheed Martin for no more than $15 million in 2011, followed by Google's purchase. But later, as the quantum cloud platform developed, the whole sale of the machine dwindled until IBM sold several quantum computers to Japan, Germany, South Korea and Canada in succession.
The system provided by Fujitsu will include a quantum computer, a high-performance computer, a quantum algorithm simulator, and a storage system; specific details of the hardware have not yet been announced. The system, funded by the Galician Innovation Agency of the Galician State Government and the European Union, will "support investment projects that promote crisis recovery capabilities and contribute to a green, digital and resilient recovery of the economy" as part of the European Recovery Plan.
CESGA Brings Quantum Computing to Supercomputing Centers
The announcement comes on the heels of the most recent update to the FinisTerrae III - a 4.4 petaflop supercomputer from Atos, built using Intel and Nvidia-powered systems - which was launched last year.
Atos also provided CESGA with a 30-bit quantum learning machine, installed in FinisTerrae III, and it is easy to see that CESGA, a supercomputing center, has been increasingly active in the quantum field since then.
CESGA created the Galician Quantum Technologies Pole in the summer of 2022 with a start-up capital of 30 million euros to establish Galicia as "the European and international benchmark for quantum computing and communication in 2030". Both in academic and research terms, as well as in commercial terms.
In addition, CESGA is also involved in the Quantum Spain project, which aims to establish a quantum computing infrastructure in the country, and the Quantum Communications Complementary Program, a partnership with the Spanish government to develop a quantum communication infrastructure with the Spanish government.
Fujitsu's Quantum Computer
In August 2022, Fujitsu announced that it will begin commercial production of quantum computers in 2023, together with the RIKEN Research Institute of Japan (RIKEN). At that time, Fujitsu will thus become the first company in Japan to produce a quantum computer.
Fujitsu's commercial quantum computer is expected to be capable of delivering 64 quantum bits. After March 2027, a machine with 1000+ quantum bits will be released.
At the Q2B conference in late 2022, Fujitsu demonstrated their 64-quantum-bit superconducting quantum computing chip for the first time.
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