In November 2025, Quantinuum released its Helios QPU with 98 qubits. It also announced it was sold to Singapore as part of a partnership with A*Star and to be deployed there in 2026. Helios got less attention than the recent news coming from Google (Willow, Echoes) and Microsoft (Majorana 1) but it deserves it. It […]

Welcome to the 80th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast series. We are this time with Chris Langer from Quantinuum. This is one of the leading companies using trapped ions for the creation of quantum computers. Unfortunately, Fanny Bouton was not with me in this podcast, moderating a panel somewhere in Paris simultaneously with this […]

Welcome to the 78th episode of Decode Quantum, where we continue to travel around the world. We are now in the UK with Sebastian Weidt, the founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, a startup creating scalable trapped-ions quantum computers. Sebastian Weidt is the CEO and co-founder of Universal Quantum since 2019, when the company was […]

Welcome to the 74th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast. In our series of three episodes recorded in Lindau where dozens of physics Nobel laureates were gathered with young scientists, we had a chance to meet David Wineland. This podcast was recorded on July 1st, 2024, in Lindau, Germany during the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate […]