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Two leading government-funded Japanese research facilities recently announced plans to procure two on-premise quantum computing (QC) systems, both from US suppliers, to support the exploration of new capabilities in QC as well as hybrid quantum/classical capabilities. QuEra Computing announced it has been awarded a 6.5 billion JPY contract (approx. $41M USD) by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology to deliver one of its gate-based neutral-atom quantum computers in 2025. IBM announced an agreement with Riken, a Japanese national research laboratory that is home to Fugaku, one of the fastest classical HPC in the world, to procure an IBM System 2, powered by one of IBM’s most advanced superconducting quantum processors, the 133-qubit Heron.
