Hefei Startup and USTC Demonstrate 16-Qubit On-Chip Photonic MBQC Architecture

Chinese startup Hefei Guizhen Chip Technology and USTC have demonstrated a 16-qubit measurement-based quantum computing system on a single silicon photonic chip using high-dimensional path encoding, achieving 98.7% accuracy on Grover’s algorithm and outperforming previous benchmarks.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Quantum Computing, and 3 sources have reported it between 10 Aug 2026 and 11 Aug 2026.