{"id":151231,"date":"2025-09-21T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151231\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:31:21","slug":"the-subatomic-age-asias-quantum-computing-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151231\/","title":{"rendered":"The subatomic age: Asia&#8217;s quantum computing arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Huawei and Alibaba among tech giants pouring money into development<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20200506 Quantum img\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The promise of quantum computing has always felt just out of reach. Now,\u00a0venture capital is streaming into startups, government funds are backing new initiatives and technology companies are poaching talent from universities. \u00a9 Illustration by Eri Sato<\/p>\n<p>PETER GUEST, Nikkei staff writer<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SINGAPORE\/TOKYO &#8212; Dzmitry Matsukevich&#8217;s laboratory is cramped and windowless, dominated by two large tables laid out with arrays of lasers, lenses, cables and black boxes arranged like some impenetrably complex board game. It is an experimentalist&#8217;s space &#8212; practical, prioritizing form over function. Plastic sheeting hangs in curtains from the ceiling; paperwork, boxes of components and rolls of electrical tape are piled on every spare surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology Huawei and Alibaba among tech giants pouring money into development The promise of quantum computing has always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1774,8878,69465,4323,2800,9581,69464,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-age","tag-arms","tag-asias","tag-computing","tag-quantum","tag-race","tag-subatomic","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}