IRVINE, California – Oct 17, 2025 – Fixstars Corporation (TSE Prime: 3687, U.S. Headquarters: Irvine, CA), a leading company in performance engineering, today announced that its group company, Fixstars Amplify Corporation, has released a major update to its GPU-based Ising machine, Fixstars Amplify Annealing Engine (Amplify AE). The latest version, Amplify AE v1.0, is now available starting today.
By integrating proprietary algorithms with advanced GPU utilization technologies, Amplify AE v1.0 substantially enhances its performance in solving combinatorial optimization problems, expanding the range and complexity of real-world challenges it can now address. This advancement enables practical applications to larger and more complex problems previously difficult to approach due to technical constraints.
From design and production planning in manufacturing to logistics and finance, Amplify AE v1.0 empowers users to solve a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems at the heart of many business and social challenges.
All users — both free and paid — can access Amplify AE v1.0 without changing their existing plans or pricing.
Benchmark Example on Real-World Challenges: Optimization of Production Planning at Company R
This benchmark addresses a real-world business problem—minimizing production costs in a factory’s production scheduling process. The problem formulation includes a quadratic objective function and 933 linear inequality constraints. The comparison is based on the time required to obtain the best solution.
Key Features of Fixstars Amplify AE v1.0
1. Exceptional Performance
The introduction of new algorithms and enhanced GPU parallel processing efficiency has greatly improved performance for large-scale and complex problems. This advancement enables handling challenges previously limited by long computation time, broadening the range of practical industrial applications.
2. Enhanced Usability through Automated Parameter Tuning
Amplify AE v1.0 introduces a new feature that automatically adjusts constraint-related parameters—previously requiring repeated manual trial and error for problems with many constraints. This automation allows users to achieve high performance without deep expertise in mathematical optimization, enabling them to focus on their original goal: solving real business challenges.
3. Enhanced Expressiveness with Support for Inequality Constraints and High-Order Polynomials
Amplify AE significantly expands support for inequality constraints and higher-order polynomial terms, making it easier to apply Amplify AE to problems that previously required complex reformulations or workarounds. This enhancement reduces the modeling burden on users while enabling more advanced and precise optimization calculations.
For more details, visit: https://amplify.fixstars.com/en/engine
Background and Achievements of Development
Combinatorial optimization problems are deeply embedded in a wide range of real-world decision-making processes — from production planning and logistics route optimization in manufacturing, to structural design optimization, material composition and process optimization, and portfolio optimization in the financial sector. Traditionally, solving such problems has required enormous computational effort.
Since 2021, Fixstars Amplify has provided a platform that leverages quantum computing technologies to solve combinatorial optimization problems. The platform is already used by more than 1,000 organizations, including companies and research institutions. Based on extensive feedback from users, Fixstars Amplify is now releasing this major update on its fifth anniversary, significantly improving both performance and usability.
As we continue working toward the social implementation of quantum technologies, Fixstars Amplify will further advance its technical capabilities and practical use cases with users, contributing to solving complex challenges across industries.
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About the Quantum Computing Platform "Fixstars Amplify"
Fixstars Amplify is a cloud-based platform with an SDK and an execution environment designed for Ising machines*. The SDK enables simple and efficient application development and supports a wide range of quantum annealers, Ising machines, mathematical optimization solvers, and gate-based quantum computers. The Fixstars Amplify Annealing Engine is an annealing machine developed in-house by Fixstars Amplify, leveraging the Fixstars’ advanced GPU technologies.
* An Ising machine is a specialized machine designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems. The technologies based on quantum mechanical effects, such as quantum annealing, have recently gained significant attention.
About Fixstars Amplify Corporation
Fixstars Amplify Corporation was established in 2021 as a subsidiary of Fixstars Corporation.
Through its quantum computing platform business, the company aims to bridge cutting-edge technologies such
as quantum computing with real-world society, addressing a wide range of social and industrial
challenges.
Fixstars Amplify accelerates progress toward a more optimized and efficient society by providing specialized
services for combinatorial optimization, system development, and consulting.
https://amplify.fixstars.com/
About Fixstars Corporation
Fixstars is a technology company dedicated to accelerating AI inference and training through advanced software optimization solutions. It supports innovation in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, mobility, and other industries. For more information, visit: https://www.fixstars.com/
