Tag: PsiQuantum

Gig Guide: Microsoft names local finance chief

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Microsoft has appointed Christopher Healey as chief financial officer for Australia and New Zealand, marking his return home after more than seven years based at the company’s Seattle headquarters. Mr...

PsiQuantum signs US$125m DARPA deal

Posted on   |  by Stephen Nellis
PsiQuantum has signed a US$125 million agreement with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the quantum computing startup’s largest US government award to date. The deal falls under...

Trump’s quantum push torpedoes Aussie first ambition

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
If Australia’s hopes of building the world’s first quantum computer already looked rocky, strap in. Something just shifted – and it wasn’t the ground beneath PsiQuantum’s Moreton Bay site....

PsiQuantum finally breaks ground at Brisbane site

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
PsiQuantum has kicked off construction of its Australian quantum computing facility at the Moreton Bay Central Innovation Precinct after abandoning earlier plans to build at Brisbane Airport. The Californian-based...

PsiQuantum to test Brisbane computer parts in Chicago

Posted on   |  by David Allen
PsiQuantum will test equipment needed to build a Brisbane-based quantum computer in the US, and has told the federal government it will have its Australian facility – but not...

PsiQuantum debuts new Brisbane quantum lab

Posted on   |  by David Allen
PsiQuantum has opened a research hub at Griffith University in Brisbane’s south, where it plans to test and prove technologies vital for its long-planned quantum computer facility. As its...

Diraq among nine quantum firms to win $2.8bn US backing

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Trump administration will take US$2 billion (A$2.8 billion) in equity stakes across nine quantum computing companies, including Australia’s Diraq, in a major push to secure US leadership in...

Slow-burn capital gains fight ignites startupland

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Good news has finally emerged from PsiQuantum’s Australian bunker with the company announcing it has ditched plans to build its world-first quantum computer at Brisbane Airport in favour of...