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Quantum Valley Ideas Lab

Want to build the next Silicon Valley? Canada can help

"The national and provincial government of Ontario joined forces with Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of Blackberry, to launch Quantum Valley, the Waterloo-based research constellation that’s turning Canada into a global quantum leader."
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Europe’s billion-euro Quantum Flagship hands out first grants

"The European Union announced the first €132 million of its quantum flagship initiative will be split between 20 continent-wide consortia to develop new kinds of quantum sensors, communications, and computers."
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“Quantum Valley the perfect setting for a second revolution,” Lazaridis says

"This region has witnessed the creation of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Institute for Quantum Computing, the Quantum-Nano Centre, and Quantum Valley Investments, with a focus on research and commercialization."
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The co-inventor of BlackBerry is building Canada’s Quantum Brain Trust

"Mike Lazaridis funds superfast computing research. The still mostly theoretical subatomic processors are so powerful they can make our fastest supercomputer look like an abacus."