Nine stories. What changed. Why it matters.
SearchChips, cloud systems, quantum experiments and the infrastructure behind the screen.
The Tech desk at Next F9 follows chips, cloud systems and quantum computing, and keeps company claims apart from independent results. News covers the NSA’s post-quantum cryptography hub and logical-qubit and error-decoding results reported by Infleqtion and IonQ; explainers cover CPUs, GPUs and NPUs, on-device versus cloud processing, cloud region outages, qubits and post-quantum cryptography.
A blinded study of 22 qubits links up to a twofold performance spread to three fabrication details.
The NSA's new hub guides defense systems toward quantum-resistant algorithms, required in new systems from 2027.
Infleqtion reports an 80-physical-qubit experiment; its larger logical-qubit targets remain future goals.
IonQ evaluated a classical decoder architecture using simulated quantum benchmark circuits.
Follow a quantum circuit from qubit preparation through gates, interference and measurement to a classical result.
The basic unit of a quantum computer: read out as 0 or 1, but able to hold a mix of both until it is measured.
New encryption built to withstand quantum computers, running on the phones and computers you already use.
Where computation happens changes a feature's privacy, speed, capability and need for connectivity.
Regional recovery depends on application design, replicated data and a tested route to another location.
CPUs, GPUs and NPUs handle different workloads, and software determines which processor gets used.
