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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform,” Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’

GeekWire

Just as transistors replaced vacuum tubes in modern computing, Microsoft has created the “transistor for the quantum age” with its latest advances, said Chetan Nayak , a Microsoft technical fellow and corporate vice president of quantum hardware, in an interview with GeekWire. Chetan Nayak.

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Advizex and HPE GreenLake Take Aim at Hybrid Cloud Complexity

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies are angling for the pay-per-use pricing, scalability, and flexibility advantages of public cloud, yet not every application or workload is a fit for the paradigm. a $2 billion global specialty chemical manufacturing company, is one of those customers. Grace & Co.,

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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Scientists turn to the cloud to streamline supercomputer calculations for chemistry

GeekWire

Their effort to make supercomputer-scale resources more widely available through cloud computing could aid in the search for methods to break down toxic “forever chemicals” that are currently hard to get rid of. The chemical, also known as PFOA, was banned worldwide in 2019 but still persists in the environment.

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5G ready or 5G really? Industry CIOs face hard truths about private 5G

CIO Business Intelligence

Such hardware limitations are hindering companies’ ambitions elsewhere too. At chemical manufacturer Dow, though, where Kyndryl and Nokia helped build a high-speed network covering one of the company’s largest plants, the wireless is only 4G. But we’ll be prepared to go there and make that switch.

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