AMD and PsiQuantum announced on Thursday (November 12) an expanded strategic partnership to jointly design the computing infrastructure needed to operate utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers — and the hybrid applications that combine quantum computing, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence.
What the partnership covers
The collaboration builds on existing work between the two companies around AMD Versal FPGA technology, chosen by PsiQuantum for the development of its fault-tolerant quantum computing platform. The relationship now also spans AMD Instinct GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs and the AMD ROCm software stack, combined with PsiQuantum's silicon photonics platform and its fully integrated platform. According to the companies, integrating classical high-performance computing, AI and photonic quantum computing should form what they describe as the world's most powerful hybrid computing fabric.
Investment and drug-discovery focus
To reinforce its commitment, AMD also plans to make an equity investment in PsiQuantum. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
The partnership's initial focus is drug discovery. PsiQuantum's proprietary computational chemistry methods are already delivering results beyond the state of the art running on AMD hardware. The companies report early progress in simulating covalent inhibitors, a class of molecules relevant to drug discovery in oncology. The teams also jointly optimized PRISM, a highly accurate machine-learning decoder for low-latency implementation on programmable hardware accelerators. It targets real-time error correction in utility-scale photonic quantum computers. The collaboration aligns with the Quantum Genesis priority applications recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Next steps
The companies are also exploring expanding the collaboration with a footprint at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) in Chicago, the largest quantum computing project in the United States, where PsiQuantum is the anchor tenant. AMD and PsiQuantum plan to share more details about the partnership at the SC26 conference, taking place November 15–20, also in Chicago.
Context: Geekiki previously covered PsiQuantum in October, when the company brought its quantum photonics to AI data centers with an optical switch — read the earlier article: PsiQuantum leva fotônica quântica aos data centers de IA com comutador óptico
Image credit: detail of PsiQuantum photonic quantum computing hardware. Image: New Scientist.
Sources: Business Wire / 6ix — PsiQuantum and AMD Collaborate to Build the Computing Foundation for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing; Reuters — AMD to invest in PsiQuantum to advance quantum computing infrastructure.
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