Quandela in consortium with attocube systems AG announce that they have been selected by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and EuroQCS-France to deliver a universal photonic quantum computer, with at least 12 qubits, the most powerful in Europe. The system, owned by EuroHPC and co-acquired by GENCI, will be hosted and operated by CEA at TGCC. It will be coupled to the Joliot-Curie supercomputer, and will be made available to scientific communities in 2025 as part of open research.

The procurement contract for the EuroQCS-France quantum computer, Lucy, has been signed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the selected French-German vendor partnership, including Quandela and attocube. Lucy will be a digital, MOSAIQ-12 photonic quantum computer, offering 12 physical qubits.

Quandela, European leader in quantum computing, announces the appointment of Michel Paulin to its Board of Directors. Michel, a recognized expert in the digital industry, was previously CEO of telecommunications pioneer SFR and European sovereign cloud leader OVHcloud. He will bring his experience to Quandela and enrich the company’s strategic vision.

The EuroQCS-France consortium, led by GENCI and CEA, is pleased to announce that European researchers can now access a 12-qubit Quandela photonic quantum computing system remotely. This exciting development allows European users to begin programming and testing their applications on a real photonic quantum computer, months ahead of the anticipated deployment at TGCC (CEA’s computing center) of the on-premise Lucy system in the end of 2025. They can be supported by experts from a High-Level Support Team to port their applications onto the photonic quantum computer.

Quandela, the European leader in photonic quantum computing, announces a major breakthrough for the sector in a scientific paper describing a reduction by a factor of 100,000 in the number of components required for fault-tolerant calculations. Quandela’s hybrid approach, based on a technology that generates photonic qubits with unprecedented efficiency from artificial atoms (semiconductor quantum emitters), should enable the company to accelerate the scaling-up of its quantum computers.

Quandela, European leader in photonic quantum computing, announces that it has won the 2024 Quantum Computing Challenge sponsored by Airbus and BMW Group, with the support of Amazon Web Services, in the “Quantum-Enhanced Autonomy” category. This award was presented during the Q2B Silicon Valley event in Santa Clara, California (USA), in which Quandela is participating.

Quandela, the European leader in photonic quantum computing, announces the recruitment of two senior profiles for the positions of Chief Financial Officer and Business Development Director. These recruitments are set to bolster a team of over 100 employees from 20 different nationalities, primarily composed of researchers and engineers specializing in optics, algorithms, and information sciences.

On November 13th 2024, Quandela, the CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, and Université Paris Cité inaugurated at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay/Université Paric Cité) the QDlight associated research laboratory focusing on research in quantum photonics, which is to say the art of controlling light in the quantum regime inside nanoscale devices. Over the course of six years, the teams will expand scientific cooperation with a view to developing next generation quantum light emitters, as well as their applications in quantum information technology to secure unprecedented computing power.

Quandela, the European leader in photonic quantum computing, unveils its ambitions with the publication of its 2024-2030 technology roadmap. The company aims to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030. To this end, Quandela intends to reach a major first milestone of achieving the first logical (error-free) qubits in 2025, before accelerating the scaling of quantum computing through quantum networking – connecting multiple quantum computers – by 2028.

Quandela, European leader in photonic quantum computing, announces the launch of its Canadian subsidiary, Quandela Canada, in Montreal. This marks a key step in the company’s international expansion, which is accompanied by the deployment of the first European quantum computer on North American soil, at the Bellevue Data Centre operated by Exaion, a subsidiary of Groupe EDF.