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OQD Launches Open-Source Collaboration with WD and QuScript to Advance Quantum Error Correction
Open Quantum Design (OQD) has announced a new open-source Error Correction Working Group with QuScript and WD (Western Digital, Nasdaq: WDC), the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy and a leader in precision engineering and large-scale data reliability, to advance quantum error correction (QEC) — an essential step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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