The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) recently announced that it has signed a procurement contract with quantum computer supplier AQT to install a EuroHPC quantum computer named EuroQCS-Poland at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland. This computer is a digital, gate-based quantum computer with more than 20 physical qubits based on trapped ions, and it will be integrated into the local HPC infrastructure of PSNC.

Europe's neutral atom quantum computing startup, planqc, announced yesterday that it had secured €50 million in Series A funding. The round was led by CATRON Holding and DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF). The company said that the new financing will be utilized to establish a quantum computing cloud service and to develop quantum software for applications in industries such as chemistry, healthcare, climate-tech, automotive, and finance. 

BeQCI, the consortium charged with deploying the first-ever open quantum communication infrastructure in Belgium, has reached an important milestone in its Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) mission. Belnet, the Belgian National Research Network, has successfully set up the required infrastructure and realized the first QKD links together with Imec and UGent. It is understood that BeQCI, funded by the EU and the Belgian Science Policy Office, serves as the branch of the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI) program in Belgium.