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Xanadu and AMD's Backline addresses a critical bottleneck in hybrid computing by enabling ultra-low-latency data exchange between quantum processors and classical accelerators like GPUs and FPGAs. By integrating this capability into the open-source PennyLane framework, the collaboration aims to accelerate practical applications such as quantum error correction and optical network routing without locking developers into proprietary hardware ecosystems. This development marks a significant step toward realizing scalable, heterogeneous quantum-classical architectures essential for near-term quantum advantage.
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Xanadu and AMD Launch Backline for Low-Latency Quantum-Classical Computing

The Quantum Insider4 min read

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu“; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, in collaboration with AMD today announced the release of Backline, an open-platform solution, co-designed by Xanadu and AMD, for rapid communications between quantum and classical computing hardware. Backline is built using Xanadu’s open-source PennyLane software platform to solve […]

Xanadu and AMD announced Backline, an open-source platform built with PennyLane for low-latency communication between quantum processors and classical computing hardware. Backline reports end-to-end classical-quantum loop times below three microseconds and supports CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs for applications including quantum error correction, network processing and sensing. The platform is designed to give developers hardware control through PennyLane’s Python interface while reducing reliance on proprietary classical hardware and vendor-specific…

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