NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW: the subatomic age: Asia’s quantum computing arms race

May 5, 2020
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“After an academic career at top universities in Ireland, the U.K. and Singapore, Joe Fitzsimons spun off Horizon Quantum Computing, a quantum software company, from CQT in 2018. The tipping point was on the horizon, he said, and he wanted to be established by the time one of the big tech companies announced that they had achieved quantum supremacy.”

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