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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology decides to install Fujitsu’s superconducting quantum computer system First order for commercial quantum computer system from domestic vendor ……
Our company received an order for a “superconducting gate quantum computer” from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) on May 15, 2024.
In April 2021, our company jointly established the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center with the National Research and Development Agency RIKEN (Note 2) (hereinafter referred to as RIKEN), a joint venture aimed at large-scale superconducting quantum computers. We have conducted research. The superconducting quantum computer that we have received this order is a computer system that we have put into practical use by utilizing the technology cultivated at the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center, and will be delivered to AIST in early 2025 by the Global Research Center for Quantum and AI Fusion Technology Business Development. (hereinafter referred to as G-QuAT). This is the first time that a domestic vendor has received an order for a commercial quantum computer system.
We have built the second domestically produced superconducting quantum computer at the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center, and will provide companies with a hybrid quantum computing platform that can be used in conjunction with a quantum simulator in October 2023. Masu. Based on original domestic technology, it is original and advanced, and is used in joint research with user companies in various fields such as materials, finance, and drug discovery via the cloud to expand the search for practical quantum applications. We are proceeding with an attempt to do so.
This superconducting quantum computer system utilizes our newly developed high-density wiring mounting technology inside the refrigerator and large-sized qubit chip mounting technology, without the need to upgrade the dilution refrigerator that makes up the superconducting quantum computer. The design is scalable to several hundred qubits, making it one of the largest in the world.
Additionally, we received an order for AIST G-QuAT’s quantum/AI cloud “ABCI-Q” (Note 3) in February 2024, contributing to the development of G-QuAT’s quantum/classical computing environment. I’ll go. We will continue to advance research and development in various areas of quantum computing and contribute to the innovative growth of academia, industry, and society.
[Comment from Masahiro Horibe, Deputy Director, Global Research Center for Quantum and AI Fusion Technology Business Development, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology]
Quantum technology is a core technology that will bring major changes to the world, and expectations and attention have rapidly increased in recent years, and international competition has also intensified. With the recent introduction of the quantum computer system, we aim to further strengthen the computational infrastructure that our center operates for research and development at companies and research institutions, and to greatly contribute to the promotion of Japanese industry and the creation of new markets. Our center plans to link quantum computers with the quantum/AI cloud “ABCI-Q” in the future and utilize them in research to establish quantum and AI fusion
technology. By having this computing platform widely utilized by a variety of users, we aim to create markets through use cases in various industrial fields, promote the industrialization of Japan’s quantum technology, and strive to secure our superiority.
[Comment from Yasunobu Nakamura, Director, RIKEN Quantum Computer Research Center]
A quarter of a century has passed since the world’s first
superconducting qubit was realized, and Fujitsu is the first Japanese company to receive an order for a commercial quantum computer, which was said to be several decades away, and to be delivered right out of the laboratory. I feel deeply moved. Since establishing the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center with Fujitsu in 2021, we have been jointly involved in research and development of domestically produced quantum computers. I believe that this initiative will not only usher in a new era in Japan’s quantum computer field, but also serve as a good model for the formation of an industry-academia-government ecosystem that will link the latest research results of Japanese academia to practical application. Masu.
[Comment from Vivek Mahajan, Executive Vice President, CTO, CPO, Fujitsu Limited]
We are very pleased that AIST has selected our superconducting quantum computer. We hope that this quantum computer will be used to strengthen the research and development infrastructure for advanced quantum technology and to advance the development of practical quantum applications. We will continue to promote the development and industrial application of quantum-related technology research at all layers, including not only hardware but also middleware, architecture, and application development, and contribute to the strengthening of Japan’s domestically produced technologies. In addition, we will lead the way in quantum-related technology in the future by integrating and commercializing the domestic technologies we have cultivated into competitive technologies that can compete globally.
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Note 1
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: Tokyo Headquarters Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Chairman Kazuhiko Ishimura Note 2
National Research and Development Agency RIKEN: Headquarters Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Chairman Makoto Gonokami
Note 3
“ABCI-Q”: A high-performance supercomputer (HPC) built by our company and scheduled to be delivered at the end of fiscal 2024. Equipped with 2,020 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
【Related Links】
・Fujitsu quantum computing
(https://www.fujitsu.com/jp/about/research/technology/quantum/) ・RIKEN and Fujitsu open collaborative center for practical application of superconducting quantum computers (Press release April 1, 2021) (https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2021/04/1.html)
・Start of “Quantum Computation Cloud Service” that allows use of quantum computers (Press release March 24, 2023)
(https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2023/03/24.html)
・Developed a superconducting quantum computer and provided a platform that can be linked with quantum simulators (Press release October 5, 2023)
(https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2023/10/5.html)
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