China has achieved a massive leap in computing power, spearheaded by a new optical quantum chip capable of accelerating complex problem-solving by over a thousandfold. The photonic quantum chip won the “Leading Technology Award” at the 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit last week – one of 17 scientific achievements honoured from more than 400 candidates across 34 countries at the technology gathering. The chip, which is intended to boost efficiency for AI data centres and supercomputers, is already being used in industries such as aerospace, biomedicine and finance, and is providing “computing power support exceeding the limit of classical computers”, according to its developers. The advances in large-scale, high-speed, programmable photonic quantum computing chip technology and applications were jointly developed by the Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore (CHIPX), a Wuxi-based institute in the eastern province of Jiangsu that is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Turing Quantum, a hi-tech start-up in Shanghai.

Full report : Quantum chip gives China’s AI data centres ‘1,000-fold’ speed boost.