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Amaravati: India’s first quantum computing testing facility launched | Hyderabad News

Amaravati: India’s first quantum computing testing facility launched | Hyderabad News

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2 min readHyderabadApr 15, 2026 04:35 AM IST Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday formally launched India’s first indigenous quantum computing testing facility at SRM University in Amaravati. With this, the CM said, the Amaravati Quantum Valley will emerge as an international quantum computing hub. Naidu witnessed a live quantum system initiation with the cooling process of the processor on the Amaravati 1Q system being triggered virtually, as the system is housed at Medha Towers in Gannavaram. At the same time, the Amaravati 1S system functioned as an open-access setup fully visible to all attendees during the demonstration. With the setting up of the Amaravati Quantum Reference Facility, India now has open sovereign quantum infrastructure, officials said. The Andhra Pradesh government’s flagship quantum technology hub under India’s National Quantum Mission, the Amaravati Quantum Valley, will be hosting an IBM 133-qubit quantum computer and has engaged in 80-plus industry and academic partnerships, positioning it to be among the top five global quantum hubs. The launch of AQRF on World Quantum Day adds an …

QpiAI Achieves High Speed Quantum Error Correction on Superconducting Systems with New Decoder Platform

QpiAI Achieves High Speed Quantum Error Correction on Superconducting Systems with New Decoder Platform

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India– A scalable quantum error correction system has been developed by QpiAI to enable fast, scalable error correction using a rotated surface code architecture. The decoder, based on a union-find algorithm, is designed to operate in real time alongside superconducting qubits and represents a key step toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing. QpiAI Achieves High Speed Quantum Error Correction on Superconducting Systems with New Decoder Platform The system implements a distance-5 rotated surface code using 49 physical qubits. Each decoder instance runs on a single QpiAI Kaveri QPU, which provides 64 qubits, allowing one decoder instance per chip. The architecture is optimized to support efficient decoding and integration with existing quantum hardware. QpiAI Founder and CEO Dr Nagendra suggested, “The design of QpiAI QEC for 64 qubit Kaveri QPU is a promising development towards large scale Quantum computing deployment. With this setup we would like to prove Error correction and reduction in errors possible and eventually lead to fault tolerant Quantum computing. QpiAI FTQC will lead us to many advances in pharmaceutical, chemicals, manufacturing …

25-qubit quantum computing system installed at IIIT-Dharwad, Raichur

25-qubit quantum computing system installed at IIIT-Dharwad, Raichur

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A file photo of IIIT Dharwad. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The State government on Wednesday announced the installation of QpiAI Indus, a 25-qubit quantum computing system, at the Quantum Computing Center of Excellence (QCCE) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Dharwad and Raichur. QpiAI-Indus is a 25-qubit, superconducting quantum computer developed by Bengaluru-based startup QpiAI in April 2025 as part of India’s National Quantum Mission. The QpiAI Indus system would be leveraged for educational use, supporting curriculum development, hands-on student training, and faculty-led research as well as commercial workloads, enabling enterprises and innovators to experiment with and apply quantum computing to real-world problems. QpiAI will also provide ongoing support to help IIIT-Dharwad users onboard, develop applications, and operationalise use cases across research and industry engagements. The installation would be QpiAI’s second deployment in Karnataka, strengthening the State’s growing quantum ecosystem and expanding access to quantum computing capabilities for academia and industry in India, said a press release. According to it, the initiative, under the Local Economy Acceleration Programme (LEAP), aligns with the State’s …

Vizag will become data centre hub and Amaravati quantum hub says Naidu

Vizag will become data centre hub and Amaravati quantum hub says Naidu

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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) outlined an ambitious, long-term technology and infrastructure roadmap for Andhra Pradesh, announcing that Visakhapatnam is fast emerging as a global hub for data centres, while Amaravati will anchor the State’s knowledge economy as India’s dedicated Quantum Valley. Addressing students, academics and industry stakeholders during the “Quantum Talk by CM CBN” programme, Mr. Naidu said Visakhapatnam’s strong subsea cable connectivity and digital infrastructure were positioning it as a key node in the global data ecosystem. He added that Tirupati is being developed as a Space City, while regions such as Anantapur and Kadapa will evolve into major electronics and aerospace hubs, creating a distributed yet interconnected innovation network across the State. Drawing parallels with his IT Vision launched nearly 25 years ago, the Chief Minister said bold policy decisions taken in the past had laid the foundation for the IT revolution in the then undivided Andhra Pradesh. “Just as Silicon Valley shaped the digital age, Amaravati’s …

RGV praises ‘Dhurandhar’ as quantum leap in India cinema, Aditya Dhar says he feels seen

RGV praises ‘Dhurandhar’ as quantum leap in India cinema, Aditya Dhar says he feels seen

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Mumbai, Ram Gopal Varma on Friday praised “Dhurandhar” by calling it a quantum leap in Indian cinema and its director Aditya Dhar said as a fan he feels overwhelmed and seen as he came to the city years ago with a desire to work with the “Satya” helmer. RGV praises ‘Dhurandhar’ as quantum leap in India cinema, Aditya Dhar says he feels seen In a long post on X, Varma, known for Hindi movies such as “Rangeela”, “Satya” and “Company”, said Dhar’s film has “completely and single handedly” changed the future of Indian cinema. “‘Dhurandhar’ is not just a film… it is a quantum leap. What ‘Dhurandhar’ achieves is not just scale, but a never before experienced vision not just in sight but in the mind. Aditya Dhar doesn’t direct scenes here… he engineers the states of minds of both the characters and us audience. The film doesn’t ask for your attention.. it commands it,” Varma said praising the Ranveen Singh starrer. The filmmaker said Dhar’s film “refuses to be polite” whether it is through …

Plans afoot to develop quantum tech-driven network to safeguard India’s digital assets, economy: DST secy Abhay Karandikar | India News

Plans afoot to develop quantum tech-driven network to safeguard India’s digital assets, economy: DST secy Abhay Karandikar | India News

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for seminal work on the development of quantum tunnelling, which has potential applications in quantum computers and quantum sensors of the future. Anjali Marar speaks to Professor Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), on India’s National Quantum Mission, the latest initiatives in quantum research in the country, and the ways forward to help the nation take big strides in the field of quantum technology. Prof Abhay Karandikar: Launched in April 2023, NQM has initiated many quantum technology-based initiatives across research and development centres, academia and industry. This mission aims at steering the Indian academia, technologists and industries, and startups towards building an ecosystem favouring quantum technology-based innovation across the four technology domains – quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum materials and technology. There is promising work towards developing the technology required for quantum sensing underway at IIT-Bombay and IIT-Kanpur. At IIT-Madras, they are working on developing the technology required for quantum communication. We are engaging with the Defence Research and Development Organisation …

A Useful Quantum Computer Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups & More Are Working On It

A Useful Quantum Computer Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups & More Are Working On It

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Andrew Dzurak, founder and CEO of Australian startup Diraq, holds one of the company’s projects. Image credit: Diraq DARPA has awarded two Australian startups, Diraq and Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), contracts for quantum computing research, the U.S. agency announced on April 4. Both Sydney-based companies will participate in the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) program, designed to assess other companies to find which might have the potential to reach useful quantum computing within the next decade. “For the chosen companies, now the real work begins,” said Joe Altepeter, DARPA QBI program manager, in a press release. “Stage A is a six-month sprint in which they’ll provide comprehensive technical details of their concepts to show that they hold water and could plausibly lead to a transformative, fault-tolerant quantum computer in under 10 years.” Useful quantum computing (or utility-scale operation) is defined as a method in which computational value exceeds the build and operational costs. Diraq teams up with other companies to manufacture quantum chips Diraq entered into the QBI its silicon spin qubits approach to quantum computing, …

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

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The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs — even when no one is touching a controller — causing unwanted movements to happen in a game. The issue also affects controllers from Sony, Microsoft, and third-party accessory makers. Hall effect sensors emerged a few years ago as a potential solution to the problem, but there’s an even better option out there that’s easier to retrofit into existing controller designs. That solution is tunneling magnetoresistance, or TMR, a technology that revolutionized hard drives two decades ago using quantum mechanics and magnets. Like Hall effect sensors, TMR sensors avoid the fundamental problem with more traditional joysticks: their sensors wear down as a matter of their design. The controllers that ship with the last few Xbox consoles, the PS4 and PS5, and the Switch are all built around sensors like this — potentiometers, a component that …

Jaipur special court declares all four accused of 2008 bomb case guilty, quantum of punishment on Monday

Jaipur special court declares all four accused of 2008 bomb case guilty, quantum of punishment on Monday

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Jaipur serial bomb blast 2008: The court has pronounced verdict in the case of the ninth bomb, which was found unexploded on the evening of May 13, 2008. A special court handling the 2008 Jaipur bomb blast cases declared all four accused guilty on Friday. Judge Ramesh Kumar Joshi of the special court for bomb blast cases pronounced the verdict and declared the accused guilty under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Explosive Substances (Prohibition) Act and IPC sections. The quantum of punishment will be announced on Monday.  The decision in the Jaipur Blast cases is declared after 17 years. On 13 May, 2008, Jaipur city was rocked as nine bombs at seven locations exploded within 15 minutes.  Decision is 2008 Jaipur Bomb Blasts  The decision is pronounced on the four accused– Shahbaz Hussain, Sarwar Azmi, Mohammad Saif and Saifurrahman– in the live bomb case. Out of them, two accused, Saif-ur-Rehman and Mohammad Saif, are already lodged in Jaipur Central Jail, whereas Mohammad Sarwar Azmi and Shahbaz Ahmed are out on bail. Jaipur Bomb …

D-Wave Claims to Achieve ‘Quantum Supremacy’ — Some Researchers Disagree

D-Wave Claims to Achieve ‘Quantum Supremacy’ — Some Researchers Disagree

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According to a peer-reviewed paper published on March 12 in the journal Science, D-Wave claims to have performed a materials simulation that surpasses the capabilities of even the most advanced classical supercomputers. Specifically, D-Wave said its annealing quantum computer solved a difficult materials simulation problem that would take millions of years on the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. D-Wave states in its related press release that the achievement is “the world’s first and only demonstration of quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem.” However, some researchers have challenged this assertion, insisting that traditional computing methods may already achieve comparable results. Moreover, some experts take issue with the usage of the term “quantum supremacy,” advocating instead for alternatives like “quantum advantage” or “quantum utility.” Simulation in approximately 20 minutes compared to a million years According to D-Wave’s paper, its annealing quantum computer Advantage2 prototype successfully simulated the properties of complex magnetic materials used in smartphones, medical devices, sensors, and motors. The company reported the simulation was completed in less than 20 minutes. …