Japan, Sept. 14 -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its ME Innovation Fund has invested in OptQC Corp., a Japanese startup that develops and provides optical quantum computer hardware. This is the fund's sixteenth investment to date.Quantum computing is transitioning from research to practical applications, including the rapid acceleration of technological development for industrial use. These applications require hardware equipped with a large number of qubits, and among the various approaches, optical quantum computing offers superior qubit scalability and energy efficiency.OptQC is a startup originating from the University of Tokyo. It was established based on technologies developed by the university's Furusawa Laboratory, ...