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TimesLIVE
07-05-2025
- Business
- TimesLIVE
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. "There are a whole bunch of use cases," Vijoy Pandey, senior vice-president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. "You need to synchronise clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe." Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more "qubits" — the fundamental unit of quantum computers — Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are — a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance". Pandey emphasised that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype.
Indian Express
07-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. 'There are a whole bunch of use cases,' Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. 'You need to synchronize clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe.' Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more 'qubits' – the fundamental unit of quantum computers – Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are – a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as 'spooky action at a distance.' Pandey emphasized that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype. 'To build out that quantum network, the first building block that you need is an entanglement chip,' Pandey said. 'Here's the first building block of that.'
The Hindu
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. "There are a whole bunch of use cases," Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. "You need to synchronise clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe." Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more "qubits" - the fundamental unit of quantum computers - Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are - a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance." Pandey emphasised that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype. "To build out that quantum network, the first building block that you need is an entanglement chip," Pandey said. "Here's the first building block of that."
The Star
06-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
FILE PHOTO: The Cisco logo is displayed, during the GSMA's 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain March 1, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File photo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. "Thereare a whole bunch of use cases," Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. "You need to synchronize clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe." Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more "qubits" - the fundamental unit of quantum computers - Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are - a phenomenonof quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance." Pandey emphasized that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype. "To build out that quantum network, the first building block that you need is an entanglement chip," Pandey said. "Here's the first building block of that." (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San FranciscoEditing by Marguerita Choy)
Fast Company
06-05-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing timeline by a decade
Cisco is the latest company to announce a quantum breakthrough. On Tuesday, the company said it has developed a prototype entanglement source chip that has the potential to cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by as much as a decade. The chip was developed in partnership with UC Santa Barbara and is novel in that it generates up to one million entangled photon pairs per second, and does so at room temperature, saving considerable resources. Additionally, Cisco is also announcing the opening of Cisco Quantum Labs, which will be the company's dedicated quantum research hub in Santa Monica, California. The chip itself was developed at Cisco's 'Outshift' incubator, where Viljoy Pandey, senior vice president at Outshift by Cisco, says the company works on projects that are 'slightly out of the comfort zone.' 'We're a networking company,' says Pandey. 'We're looking at quantum networking and quantum security.' 'Our thesis is pretty straightforward: To make [quantum computing] practical, you need to scale it out,' he adds. 'You need a network, and to have a quantum network, you need a quantum entanglement chip. That's the first building block.' In practice, the chip will allow quantum computers to be networked together—similar to existing networks for classical computers—enabling distributed quantum computing. 'There's going to be a ChatGPT moment for quantum' While other companies are focused on building quantum computers themselves, Cisco is working on the infrastructure to make quantum computing actually work—and it's attempting to get ahead of things by developing the network and security frameworks while large-scale quantum demand is still likely years away. Moreover, while some experts have mused that quantum computing could be as far as 20 years down the road, Pandey says that Cisco's breakthrough likely cuts that timeline by 'between five and 10 years.' Building the chip took between three and four years, and now Cisco is looking at moving it into production, says Reza Nejabati, head of Quantum Research and Quantum Labs at Outshift by Cisco. 'We're working toward more commercial fabrication,' he says. 'There's a whole bunch of hardware and software technology that we're bringing up. The quantum proof of concept is happening.' As for what's next, Pandey says Cisco will work on software to help build out a quantum network and continue work on a quantum roadmap. 'There's going to be a ChatGPT moment for quantum,' he says. 'We need to start putting the fundamental building blocks together to prepare.'
