Dr. Alexandre Blais at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On March 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 25th, 2022 / 2:50 p.m.

Professor and Scientific Director, Quantum Institute, Université de Sherbrooke, As an Individual

For the industry, as Professor Lütkenhaus explained well, quantum computing brought about an initial revolution: microelectronics as we already know it. We are now in the second revolution.

We could say that Canada came out a loser, in a way, in the first revolution. The Apples, IBMs and Intels of this world are not here in Canada; they are south of the border. As a result, the big players that are investing massively in quantum technology today are also located south of the border: Google, IBM, Intel and Amazon.

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