China sells quantum chips to Middle East and Western countries in show of growing influence in sector

SpinQ’s QPU chip is a sign of successful venture into standardised mass production of the tech. SpinQ aims to drive ‘common prosperity in the global quantum computing industry chain’, founder and CEO Xiang Jingen says. — SCMP

China’s quantum computing capabilities have made a leap with the first delivery of a domestically developed superconducting quantum chip to an unnamed scientific research institute in the Middle East, according to a state media report.

The sale by SpinQ, a pioneering company based in Shenzhen, comes soon after Chinese quantum chips were sold to the United States and its allies.