<img src="https://ml.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/908fb457-7f8e-4a08-9081-5565e3dfb3d7?size=2" nborder="0" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" title="22157.jpg" alt="Company Logo"/>The global quantum technology market is poised for transformative growth through 2046, with 2025 marking a pivotal year as nearly $10 billion was raised, spotlighting a robust shift beyond seed-stage investments. Key insights from the "Global Quantum Technology Market 2026-2046" report highlight full-stack consolidation, quantum-AI convergence, and the rise of photonics as leading industry trends, ensuring quantum tech remains a seminal investment category.Dublin, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The <a href="https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/quantum-technology?utm_source=GNE&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease&amp;utm_code=ch8zd8&amp;utm_campaign=2249423+-+Quantum+Technology+Research+Report+2026-2046%3a+Comprehensive+Market+Intelligence+on+the+Second+Quantum+Revolution+-+Computing%2c+Sensors%2c+Communications+%26+Software+Analysis+and+Forecasts&amp;utm_exec=chdomspi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Global Quantum Technology Market 2026-2046: Computing, Sensors, Communications &amp; Software">"The Global Quantum Technology Market 2026-2046: Computing, Sensors, Communications &amp; Software"</a> report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Quantum Technology Market 2026-2046: Computing, Sensors, Communications &amp; Software is the most comprehensive market intelligence resource available on the second quantum revolution. Spanning a 20-year forecast horizon and 14 chapters, the report covers every commercially active layer of the quantum technology stack - from foundational materials and cryogenic infrastructure through QPU hardware, software platforms, sensors, communications systems, and end-use applications - with detailed market sizing, vendor analysis, and forward-looking strategic intelligence. The global quantum technology market entered 2026 from a position of unprecedented commercial momentum. Full-year 2025 closed with nearly $10 billion in total quantum financings - a structural acceleration rather than a hype cycle, encompassing private equity rounds, public market offerings, strategic acquisitions, and government-backed joint ventures. Q1 2025 alone delivered over $1.25 billion in equity funding, a 125% increase year-on-year, and momentum compounded through every subsequent quarter. Fifteen companies raised more than $100 million each in 2025, with average late-stage round sizes expanding from approximately $50 million in 2023 to comfortably above $100 million in 2025 - reflecting the transition from seed-stage research bets to serious commercial deployment capital. The headline transactions reset valuation expectations across the industry. PsiQuantum closed a $1 billion Series E led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7 billion post-money valuation - the largest quantum venture round in history. Quantinuum raised $600 million at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the highest-ever for a privately held quantum company, with NVIDIA, Fidelity, and Quanta Computer participating. IQM Quantum Computers raised over $300 million in Series B funding, achieving unicorn status. IonQ executed approximately $2.5 billion in acquisitions across 18 months, absorbing Oxford Ionics ($1.075 billion), ID Quantique, and Vector Atomic to become the world's most comprehensive quantum technology platform. D-Wave's $550 million acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc. similarly reflected industry-wide consolidation toward integrated quantum stacks. Funding momentum has carried directly into 2026. IQM Quantum Computers announced a SPAC merger at a $1.8 billion valuation, becoming the first European quantum computing company listed on a US exchange. Xanadu Quantum Technologies advanced toward its NASDAQ listing with approximately $455 million in net cash on close. Quantinuum is pursuing a traditional underwritten IPO. The quantum sector has crossed decisively from private to public capital markets - and pricing pressure has not abated, with private and public valuations sustaining levels that would have been considered extraordinary even two years earlier. The strategic picture for 2026 is unambiguous: capital concentration at scale, full-stack consolidation as the dominant industry strategy, photonics emerging as the scale-up architecture of choice (three of the five largest 2025 raises were photonic companies), software and control layers attracting durable platform-level investment, and quantum-AI convergence forming a genuine investment theme. Quantum technology now sits alongside AI, biotech, and advanced semiconductors as one of the defining technology investment categories of the decade. Report contents include: <ul><li>Executive summary including 2025 investment landscape ($10 billion in financings), Q1-Q4 quarterly funding analysis, government initiatives across 10 leading nations, supply chain concentration and geopolitical exposure, top ten supply chain bottlenecks, SWOT analysis, market map, value chain, and 2026-2046 forecasts.</li><li>Introduction to first and second quantum revolutions, quantum mechanics principles (superposition, entanglement, coherence, tunnelling), enabling technologies, and standards development.</li><li>Quantum computing across all eight major qubit modalities - superconducting, trapped ion, silicon spin, topological, photonic, neutral atom, diamond-defect, and quantum annealers - with technology descriptions, market players, SWOT analyses, hardware roadmaps, and detailed coverage of error correction, fault tolerance, infrastructure requirements, software, business models, and quantum-classical data centre integration.</li><li>Quantum chemistry and AI, quantum machine learning (including QML phases, algorithms, and applications), and quantum simulation (analog vs digital approaches, simulation platforms, and chemistry applications).</li><li>Quantum communications including QRNG, QKD (BB84, CV-QKD, DV-QKD, MDI-QKD, TF-QKD protocols), post-quantum cryptography (NIST standardisation, migration implications, market players), quantum networks, quantum memory, and quantum internet.</li><li>Quantum sensors across atomic clocks, magnetic field sensors (SQUIDs, OPMs, TMRs, NV centres), gravimeters, gyroscopes, image sensors, radar, navigation, chemical sensors, RF field sensors (Rydberg and NV-centre based), and quantum NEMs/MEMs.</li><li>Quantum batteries, including technology types, applications, and market forecasts.</li><li>End-use markets spanning pharmaceuticals, financial services, aerospace and defence, energy and utilities, healthcare and medical, telecommunications, and government applications.</li><li>Materials for quantum technologies including superconductors, photonics, nanomaterials, artificial diamond, cryogenic infrastructure, helium-3 supply chain, cryo-CMOS, lasers, UHV systems, and microwave/optical interconnects.</li><li>Regional analysis for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of World, plus government initiatives comparison.</li><li>Global market analysis including consolidated forecasts to 2046 by segment, end-use industry, and region; supply chain market sizing; and combined quantum technology economy view.</li><li>Profiles of 327 companies spanning every layer of the quantum technology ecosystem.</li></ul> Key Topics Covered: 1 Executive Summary 2 Introduction To Quantum Technology 3 Quantum Computing 4 Quantum Chemistry And Artifical Intelligence (Ai) 5 Quantum Machine Learning 6 Quantum Simulation 7 Quantum Communications 8 Quantum Sensors 9 Quantum Batteries 10 End-Use Markets And Applications 11 Materials For Quantum Technologies 12 Global Market Analysis 13 Company Profiles (345 Company Profiles) <ul><li>A* Quantum</li><li>ARQUE Systems</li><li>AbaQus</li><li>Absolut System</li><li>Adaptive Finance Technologies</li><li>Aegiq</li><li>Agnostiq</li><li>Airbus</li><li>Alea Quantum</li><li>Algorithmiq</li><li>Alice &amp; Bob</li><li>Aliro Quantum</li><li>Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)</li><li>Anametric</li><li>Anyon Systems</li><li>Aqarios</li><li>Aquark Technologies</li><li>Archer Materials</li><li>Arclight Quantum</li><li>Arctic Instruments</li><li>Arqit Quantum</li><li>Artificial Brain</li><li>Artilux</li><li>Atlantic Quantum</li><li>Atom Computing</li><li>Atom Quantum Labs</li><li>Atomionics</li><li>Atos Quantum</li><li>BEIT</li><li>Baidu</li><li>Beyond Blood Diagnostics</li><li>Bifrost Electronics</li><li>Bleximo</li><li>BlueQubit</li><li>Bluefors</li><li>Bohr Quantum Technology</li><li>Bosch Quantum Sensing</li><li>BosonQ Ps</li><li>C12 Quantum Electronics</li><li>CAS Cold Atom</li><li>CEW Systems Canada</li><li>Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC)</li><li>Cerca Magnetics</li><li>Chipiron</li><li>Chiral Nano</li><li>Classiq Technologies</li><li>ColibriTD</li><li>Commutator Studios</li><li>Covesion</li><li>Crypta Labs</li><li>CryptoNext Security</li><li>Crystal Quantum Computing</li><li>D-Wave Systems</li><li>Delft Circuits</li><li>Delta g</li><li>DeteQt</li><li>Diatope</li><li>Digistain</li><li>Dirac</li><li>Diraq</li><li>Duality Quantum Photonics</li><li>EYL</li><li>EeroQ</li><li>Element Six</li><li>Elyah</li><li>Entropica Labs</li><li>Ephos</li><li>Equal1</li><li>EuQlid</li><li>Exail Quantum Sensors</li><li>First Quantum</li><li>Fujitsu</li><li>GenMat</li><li>Genesis Quantum Technology</li><li>Good Chemistry</li><li>Google Quantum AI</li><li>Groove Quantum</li><li>Haiqu</li><li>Hefei Wanzheng Quantum Technology</li><li>High Q Technologies</li><li>Horizon Quantum Computing</li><li>eleQtron</li><li>evolutionQ</li><li>g2-Zero</li></ul> For more information about this report visit <a href="https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/quantum-technology?utm_source=GNE&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease&amp;utm_code=ch8zd8&amp;utm_campaign=2249423+-+Quantum+Technology+Research+Report+2026-2046%3a+Comprehensive+Market+Intelligence+on+the+Second+Quantum+Revolution+-+Computing%2c+Sensors%2c+Communications+%26+Software+Analysis+and+Forecasts&amp;utm_exec=chdomspi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="">https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/45n9px</a> About ResearchAndMarkets.com ResearchAndMarkets.com is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. 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