UK company Universal Quantum was awarded a major quantum computing contract
The German Aerospace Centre awarded UK’s Universal Quantum with €67 million to build large scale quantum computer.
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has awarded Universal Quantum Deutschland GmbH, a branch of British startup Universal Quantum, with €67 million to build a fully scalable quantum computer based on trapped-ion technology. A trapped-ion quantum computer is one of the proposed approaches to a large-scale quantum computer.
This comes as part of the German Quantum Computing Initiative founded by the German Ministry of Economy, a wider quantum initiative led by the German federal government.
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