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EU aims for its first quantum-accelerated computer by 2025
Due 2025
The European Commission's 2030 Digital Compass set the ambition that by 2025 Europe would have its first computer with quantum acceleration, meaning a supercomputer with a quantum processor attached, as a step towards the cutting edge of quantum capabilities by 2030.
- Predicted by
- European Union
- Type
- Government target
- Said on
- Mar 9, 2021
- Original deadline
- by 2025 (2025)
- Status
- Delivered
Outcome
2025: The Commission's July 2025 Quantum Europe Strategy says the target was met by hooking quantum computers up to supercomputers in France, Germany and Finland. In November 2025 EuroHPC inaugurated the Jade and Ruby quantum processors, which it says deliver on the 2025 ambition.
Outcome sources
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European Commission
Quantum Europe Strategy, COM(2025) 363 final
“Europe has also successfully enabled the early hybridisation of quantum computers with HPC, thus achieving the EU Digital Decade target of having a first quantum-accelerated computer in 2025”
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EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Inauguration of Jade and Ruby quantum processors: milestone towards hybrid high-performance computing
“Moreover, it delivers on the ambition set out by the European Commission in the 2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade, proposing that, by 2025, Europe will have its first computer with quantum acceleration paving the way for Europe to be at the cutting edge of quantum capabilities by 2030.”
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