France bets 500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win

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  • A cluster of French startups, backed by €500 million in government funding, is positioning France as a serious contender in a race where legacy advantages count for remarkably little.
  • France’s PROQCIMA programme is aiming to deliver a fault-tolerant quantum computer demonstrator with 128 logical qubits by 2030 and a 2,048-logical-qubit commercial system by 2035.
  • The programme is structured as a competition: after four years, the three most promising approaches advance; after eight, only two remain.
Europe has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, [+6439 chars]

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