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IFAE joins EU‑selected SUPREME consortium to scale industrial production of superconducting quantum chips
July 11, 2025
Quantum Computing Technologies GroupThe Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) is one of the 23 partners from eight EU member states in SUPREME, a new European project selected under the Chips Joint Undertaking to establish pilot lines for the industrial production of superconducting quantum chips.
Coordinated by VTT (Finland), SUPREME brings together research institutions, companies, and SMEs to develop scalable, open-access infrastructure for superconducting quantum technologies. The project will focus on key components such as Josephson junctions, travelling-wave parametric amplifiers, and single-photon detectors. Pilot-line operations are expected to begin in early 2026, with access to external users starting in 2027.
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, a spin-off of IFAE, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and the University of Barcelona (UB), also participates in the consortium as an industrial partner, contributing to the development and commercialization of superconducting quantum computing systems.
SUPREME will run for four years and aims to strengthen Europe’s position in the quantum hardware landscape by building robust and standardized fabrication capabilities.
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Qilimanjaro contributes to new quantum computing milestone at BSC
May 28, 2026
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, the spin-off of IFAE, BSC and UB has contributed to the deployment at BSC of a system constituted by a new 35-qubit quantum computer, along with another 20-qubit quantum computer for uninterrupted operation, with Manel Martínez acting as Project Leader within the Qilimanjaro-GMV consortium.