Insider Brief
- Quandela has published its 2024-2030 roadmap, aiming to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030, with the first logical qubits expected by 2025 and industrial-scale quantum computer assembly by 2028.
- The company’s approach, based on integrated photonics, is designed to be more efficient and scalable than competing technologies, requiring far fewer components to achieve its goals, and plans to launch a second quantum computer factory by 2027.
- Quandela’s roadmap includes supporting application developers with quantum computing libraries by 2028 and hybrid QPU-GPU solutions by 2025, as well as participation in the PROQCIMA program, targeting French-designed quantum computer prototypes by 2032.
Quandela, the European leader in photonic quantum computing, has revealed its ambitions with the release of its 2024-2030 technology roadmap. The company aims to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030. As a first major step, Quandela plans to develop the first logical (error-free) qubits by 2025, before scaling quantum computing by networking multiple quantum computers together by 2028.
A Complete Range of Quantum Computer Services
Since its inception, Quandela has developed a full-stack quantum strategy, offering a complete range of services to businesses and research communities: production of quantum computers, cloud access, training, and identifying use cases with industry. This ambition is fully reflected in the technology roadmap unveiled by the company, which aims to develop industrial processes capable of addressing the technological challenges of tomorrow and the needs of businesses by 2030. Quandela’s integrated photonic technology is a major asset, as it requires millions fewer components than competing photonic technologies.
Computational Capacity: Towards 50 Logical Qubits by 2028
Quandela’s goals include scaling its quantum processors, increasing quantum operations per second (QOPS) by a factor of 25 (from 400 to 10,000). The company plans to reach the first logical qubits—error-free qubits—by 2025, and to achieve 50 logical qubits by 2028. By 2030, Quandela aims to operate at a scale of hundreds of logical qubits.
Expanding Industrial Capabilities with a Second Quantum Computer Factory
In terms of industrialization, Quandela aims to assemble 4 quantum computers per year starting in 2025, and to launch a second quantum computer factory in 2027. By 2028, Quandela plans to reach large-scale quantum computer assembly, including fault-tolerant systems.
Supporting Application Developers
Quandela plans to launch general-purpose quantum computing libraries for application developers in 2028. In terms of software and algorithms, Quandela aims to boost artificial intelligence applications by developing QPU-GPU hybridization in 2025 and by creating compilers and decoders for error correction by 2027.
Part of the Proqcima Program
Quandela was selected in Spring 2024 as one of five quantum players in the PROQCIMA program, operated by the Directorate General of Armaments as part of the France 2030 program. The program aims to have two prototypes of French-designed universal quantum computers by 2032. Quandela is confident in its ability to be one of the two companies selected at the end of this multi-year program.
Quandela’s Roadmap Track Record
Quandela has a strong track record of meeting, and sometimes exceeding, its goals in recent years. The company was the first European player to offer quantum computers via the cloud and to sell and deploy a quantum computer to a private customer. In September, Quandela was selected by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to deliver a quantum computer, which will be hosted in France.
“This technology roadmap positions Quandela among the very few global players with a clear and solid path to the universal quantum computer. The roadmap is ambitious and credible in light of the goals already achieved since the company’s founding in 2017, and the excellent performance in the ratio of goals achieved to financial resources deployed. The roadmap unveiled today should allow Quandela, year after year, to ensure its technological and industrial growth to successfully navigate the quantum transition, which is emerging as a strategic and unavoidable issue for companies and even states by the end of the decade,” said Niccolo Somaschi, co-founder and CEO of Quandela.
