No One Can Cost a PQC Migration. Fund It Anyway.
There is no benchmark for a post-quantum migration, because no enterprise has finished one. You can still build a defensible budget from numbers your…
Quantum Hardware Costs More to Operate Than to Buy
The hardware quote is the smaller half of the number. Here is how the five-year cost of a quantum computer breaks down, and where…
How to Tell a Real Quantum Application From a Marketed One
Five industries have published evidence for quantum advantage. Roughly twenty do not. Three questions, asked in order, separate the two lists before any money…
Which Industries Win by 2033, and How to Tell
A two-question screen for quantum advantage by 2033, worked through nitrogen fixation and derivative pricing, plus what would change the answer.
What Early Quantum Buyers Are Actually Paying For
Current quantum computers can't beat a laptop on real work, yet governments and enterprises keep buying them. Which justifications hold up in a business…
China’s Quantum Talent Machine, and What It Couldn’t Buy
Two decades of state recruitment gave China a world-leading quantum program and left it short where it matters most. The workforce lesson transfers to…
How to Read China’s Quantum Supply Chain
China went from zero domestic dilution refrigerator makers in 2021 to roughly ten. Here is how to read a supply chain claim like that…
The Real Size of a Post-Quantum Migration
One published program plan for a post-quantum migration runs to more than 120,000 scheduled tasks. Here is where the small estimate loses the work.
What Modular Quantum Computing Changes for Buyers
Open architecture gives buyers a third option between a sealed system and a do-it-yourself build. It also moves integration risk onto the purchase order.
Q-Day Is a Confidence Crisis, Not an Outage
The morning a quantum computer factors an RSA-2048 key, nothing goes dark. What ends is the presumption of safety, and the questions start within…