Sydney firms advance in $460m global quantum computing race


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Two Australian hardware companies have made it to the second stage of a landmark US Defence quantum program, earning them each up to $23 million in new research funding and keeping them in the hunt for $460 million more.

The progression of UNSW spinouts Silicon Quantum Computing and Diraq on Friday is also a significant endorsement of their respective silicon-based paths to developing utility scale quantum computers.

The computers are …

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