Quantum Computing

The quantum computing market grew 35% to $1.4 billion in 2024, with IBM, Google, and IonQ reaching 1,000+ qubit systems. Google's Willow chip in December 2024 solved a quantum computation benchmark in five minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10 septillion years — a watershed moment. Governments globally invested $45 billion in quantum R&D by 2025, anticipating quantum supremacy's implications for cryptography, drug discovery, and materials science.