IBM will deploy Korea's first IBM commercial quantum computer at Yonsei University’s Songdo campus in Incheon in the latter half of this year. Yesterday, The full-scale model of the IBM Quantum System One was displayed at the Quantum Korea 2024 event held in Goyang, South Korea. It is understood that Yonsei University and IBM announced their collaboration to build the "Yonsei-IBM Quantum Computing Center" in July last year, making South Korea the fifth country to deploy IBM's superconducting quantum computer locally.

Led by IQM Quantum Computers, the Q-Exa consortium has collaborated with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) to integrate a 20-qubit quantum computer into Germany's SuperMUC-NG supercomputer. The Q-Exa project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with an investment of over 40 million euros, aims to connect quantum processing units (QPU) based on superconducting circuits to a supercomputer and to develop interfaces and control tools for this purpose. 

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has initiated a new tender process to seek R&D partners to scale up the country’s most powerful quantum computer to 300 qubits. In addition to increasing the qubit count, VTT will examine, together with the selected partner, whether it is possible to optimize the quantum computer to solve specific types of mathematical problems. VTT has previously developed 5-qubit and 20-qubit quantum computers with current partners, and a third system featuring 50 qubits is set to launch in the second half of 2024.

Fujitsu announced yesterday that it has received an order for a gate-based superconducting quantum computer from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) on May 15, 2024. This quantum computer is scheduled to go online in early 2025 and to be operated by the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI technology (G-QuAT) of AIST. It is reported that this is the first time that a Japanese vendor has received an order for a commercial quantum computer system.

Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, collaborating with Yokohama National University, Tohoku University, and NEC Corporation, have proposed and successfully demonstrated a new method that can control multiple qubits via a single cable using microwave multiplexing technology at low temperature. The researchers said that this circuit has the potential to increase the density of microwave signals per cable by approximately 1,000 times, thereby increasing the number of controllable qubits significantly.

Researchers from the Dutch quantum research institution QuTech have announced plans to build Europe's first quantum computer with 100 qubits. The device is scheduled to be completed in 2026 and will be open to the public. This project is funded by the Dutch quantum industry organization Quantum Delta NL through the European OpenSuperQPlus program.