- Nord Quantique promises quantum power without bulk or energy drains
- Traditional HPC may decrease if Nord’s speed and energy requirements turn out real
- To crack the RSA-830 in one hour could transform cyber security forever
A quantum Computing startup has announced plans to develop a tool-scale quantum computer with more than 1,000 logical Qubits in 2031.
Nord Quantique has set an ambitious goal which, if achieved, could signal a seismic shift in high -performance computing (HPC).
The company claims that its machines are smaller and will offer far greater efficiency in both speed and energy consumption, thereby making traditional HPC systems outdated.
Promoting error correction through multimetimoding coding
Nord Quantique uses “multimode coding” via a technique called the Tesseract code, and this allows each physical cavity to represent more than one quantum state, which effectively increases redundancy and resilience without adding complexity or size.
“Multimode coding allows us to build quantum computers with excellent error correction features, but without obstacles to all these physical Qubits,” explained Julien Camirand Lemneyre, CEO of Nord Quantique.
“In addition to their smaller and more practical size, our machines will also consume a fraction of the energy, making them appealing, for example, to HPC centers where energy costs are top of the mind.”
Nord’s machines would occupy only 20 square meters, making them very suitable for the integration of data center.
Compared to 1,000-20,000 m² needed by competing platforms, this portability further strengthens its case.
“These smaller systems are also easier to develop into a utility scale due to their size and lower requirements for cryogenics and control electronics,” the company added.
The implication here is significant: Better error correction without the scaling of physical infrastructure, a central bottleneck in the quantum race.
In a technical demonstration, NORD’s system showed excellent stability over 32 error correction cycles without measurable decay in quantum information.
“Their approach to coding logical quubits in Multimode Tesseract states is a very effective method of tackling error correction and I am impressed with these results,” said Yvonne Gao, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore.
“They are an important step forward on the industry’s journey towards a quantum scale for tool scale.”
Such endorsements provide credibility, but independent validation and repetition remains critical of long -term confidence.
Nord Quantique claims that its system could solve the RSA-830, a representative cryptographic challenge, in just one hour using 120 kWh energy at a speed of 1 MHz, reducing the energy head by 99%.
In contrast, traditional HPC systems require approx. 280,000 kWh in nine days. Other quantum methods, such as superconducting, photonic, cold atoms and ion traps, fall short in either speed or efficiency.
For example, cold atoms can only consume 20 kW, but solving the same problem would take six months.
That said, there is still a need for caution. Post selection – used in NORD’s error correction demonstrations, required discarding of 12.6% of the data per Round. Although this helped show stability, it introduces the question of the real world consistency.
In quantum calculation, the jump from laboratory fracture to practical implementation can be large; Thus, the allegations of energy reduction and miniaturization of the system, although striking, need independent verification in the real world.
