German Government To Provide Funding for €44.5 Million ($50.3M USD) Ion Trap Computer Development

The project, called ATIQ, will receive most of its funding, €37.5 million. from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and will have a duration of 5 years starting on December 1, 2021. It will have 25 collaborators and will be organized by the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Additional partners including Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Siegen, TU Braunschweig, RWTH Aachen, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft, the companies AMO GmbH, AKKA Industry Consulting GmbH, Black Semiconductor GmbH, eleQtron GmbH, FiberBridge Photonics GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG, JoS QUANTUM GmbH, LPKF Laser & Electronics AG, Parity Quantum Computing Germany GmbH, QUARTIQ GmbH, Qubig GmbH and TOPTICA Photonics AG. Associated partners are AQT Germany GmbH, Boehringer Ingelheim, Covestro AG, DLR-SI, Volkswagen AG and QUDORA Technologies GmbH. An initial goal for the next 30 months will be to have a 10-qubit ion trap demonstrator made in Germany that will be available for use 24/7. Follow-on activity will include research on scaling up the technology to support over 100 qubits. Additional information about this project is available in a news release on the website of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz that can be found here and also another news release issued by eleQtron and ParityQC that can be seen here.

December 23, 2021