Three developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
German Consortium Led by QUDORA Selected for €122 Million Fault-Tolerant Trapped-Ion Project
A consortium led by QUDORA Technologies has been selected for a €122 million project called NFQC-1k, announced on 23 September 2026 after a successful project-outline evaluation. The goal is a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical qubits and 50 logical qubits, plus a pilot line for manufacturing quantum processing units (QPUs). Partners include TU Braunschweig, Leibniz University Hannover, the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany’s national metrology institute), Forschungszentrum Jülich, NXP Semiconductors and Alpine Quantum Technologies. The five-year effort is part of Germany’s strategy to deploy advanced quantum computers by 2030.
Source: QUDORA Technologies press release
Alice & Bob and ENS Lyon Stabilize Cat Qubits With a Microvolt DC Bias Instead of Microwave Drives
Alice & Bob and ENS Lyon (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) report a DC-voltage-biased SQUID architecture that stabilizes cat qubits, a bosonic qubit type designed to suppress certain errors, without the usual microwave pump drives. By biasing the circuit with a voltage on the microvolt scale, the team selectively activated one-, two- and four-photon conversion processes, which they say avoids parasitic nonlinearities of conventional microwave pumping and could simplify hardware by replacing microwave lines with DC wiring. The preprint also points to four-component cat qubits for stronger error protection. The result is a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
Source: arXiv preprint 2608.31154
New Mexico Opens Roadrunner Quantum Lab to Link Startups With National Labs
New Mexico has launched the Roadrunner Quantum Lab, a 35,000-square-foot shared research facility in Albuquerque meant to connect national laboratories with private companies. Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory are involved, and eight companies are initial tenants, among them Diraq, IonQ, Quantum Machines and QuEra. State officials say the aim is to help commercialize lab technology, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars directed toward quantum computing development in the state.
Source: Reuters (syndicated)
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