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Nir Minerbi, Professor Serge Rosenblum, Dr. Iamar Sivan <\/p>\n
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The rising traction surrounding the quantum sector feels prescient, as the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for discoveries made in the 1980s that proved macroscopic quantum tunneling and the quantization of energy in an electrical circuit, which are the foundations of today\u2019s quantum computing revolution.<\/p>\n
For Professor Serge Rosenblum, Chief Scientist at quantum computing technology company QuamCore and Assistant Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Prize represents \u201ca stamp of approval for this technology\u2026 It reinforces superconducting quantum computing as the leading technology toward building these machines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps it also serves as a reminder of the lifespan that truly transformative deep-tech technologies take to mature. For quantum, the question is no longer about the tech itself but about where it sits in the journey toward market readiness, as Sivan explains. \u201cLet me be clear. People sometimes ask, \u2018When will quantum computers work?\u2019 Well, they do\u2026 today, we have working quantum computers,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe big thing we\u2019re waiting for is commercially useful use cases\u2026 and I think we\u2019ll see that in the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIndeed, the motivation for quantum computing is not new,\u201d says Nir Minerbi, CEO of ClassiQ Technologies, another Israeli startup and, as the world\u2019s largest company solely dedicated to quantum software, a major player in the burgeoning field. He believes the realisation of this inflection point will be \u201ca once-in-a-century revolution.\u201d \u201cIt took a significant time and great efforts to be where we are today, right on the cusp of this new era in computing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
On the global stage, we can see this inflection point already beginning to play out. On 23 October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a major quantum breakthrough for the company, with its Willow chip achieving the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Published in Nature, the new algorithm, named Quantum Echoes, ran 13,000 times faster than one of the world\u2019s leading supercomputers. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science,\u201d Pichai wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Locally, Ayalon Highways and Israeli startup Quantum Art recently unveiled plans for a pilot to optimize traffic in Israel using quantum algorithms for the real-time management of traffic lights. The initiative is the first of its kind in Israel and among the first globally to apply quantum computing to urban planning.<\/p>\n
These examples help to satisfy the broader questions that all this progress is building toward. Who are the customers for the services of these quantum startups; the target audience as quantum tech moves toward real-world application?<\/p>\n
According to Sivan, Quantum Machines, which develops complete solutions for the control and operation of quantum computers, has \u201chundreds of customers, all of which are really pushing the envelope to develop these full-scale quantum computers that will bring this very disruptive revolution in computing.\u201d He continues, \u201cOur customers span most of the organizations globally that develop quantum computers, whether these are big tech companies, national labs all over the world, startups, universities and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone that is using classical computers, at some point will use quantum computers. This is a huge market,\u201d adds Minerbi. For ClassiQ, which develops the operating system that allows organizations to build and run applications on any quantum computer, its customers include \u201cthe biggest enterprises globally,\u201d according to Minerbi. \u201cThese are BMW, Comcast, SoftBank, HSBC and Toshiba, and any large industry in pharma, automotive, aerospace, defense, finance, government. Also academia, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n
He adds that ClassiQ is already working with \u201chundreds of academic institutions, governments and basically anyone that looks to develop applications that will run on these computers.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a macro level, when it comes to the tech giants and other large-scale internationals that are potential buyers of startups in the quantum field, \u201cit\u2019s the same usual suspects as in computing broadly and AI,\u201d says Sivan. \u201cThe leaders in the field are just like in classical computing \u2013 Google and Amazon, Microsoft and other big techs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the set is very large,\u201d Minerbi adds, echoing the tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel and IBM. \u201cBut also newcomers, tech giants that are not yet in quantum, like Oracle or AMD and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Rosenblum, who similarly identifies Big Tech and semiconductor firms as the hyperscalers in the field, believes future acquirers will extend beyond these to include defense and industrial powerhouses such as Honeywell (Quantinuum), Lockheed Martin and Siemens.<\/p>\n
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