2025 Roundup and What’s Next for CPUs, GPUs, and Quantum

We’re closing out 2025 with a big year-end episode of Context Window, and it’s a fun one! Ed Anuff and Anant Jhingran kick things off with a fast, no-fluff recap of the biggest shifts developers actually felt this year: from AI tooling shakeups to new workflow patterns to the compute bottlenecks everyone ran into.

We’re joined by Dr. Alessandro Curioni (IBM Fellow & VP at IBM Research Zurich) and Dr. Sarah Sheldon (Distinguished Quantum Computing Researcher) for a deep, practical conversation about the compute side of the story: CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, quantum: what changed in 2025, what didn’t, and what developers should expect next.

Here's what we cover
👉 Why compute felt maxed-out this year, and why it matters
👉 How CPUs, GPUs, and quantum are evolving (and when each actually makes sense)
👉 What’s real vs. hype when it comes to near-term quantum
👉 The software gaps that still slow teams down
👉 How mixed compute (CPU + GPU + quantum) is going to change the way you build

Chapters:
Introduction to Quantum and AI - 0:00
Quantum Computing Fundamentals - 3:00
AI and Quantum Synergy - 9:00
Quantum in Chemistry and Material Science - 15:00
Future of Computing and Software Development - 21:00
Optimization and Quantum Algorithms - 27:00
Conclusion and Future Outlook - 33:00


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