MASSY-PALAISEAU, France — The competitiveness of quantum computers, as directly observed at Pasqal's headquarters and research labs, is advancing rapidly. Beyond the technological superiority quantum computers hold over other computing devices, dramatic improvements are also being made in manufacturing capacity. This signals that the foundation is being laid for quantum technology to take root as a core solution across diverse industries, including artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Pasqal was in the process of expanding its manufacturing facilities from its research lab to its headquarters. The new manufacturing facility at headquarters houses nine quantum processing unit (QPU) bays, enabling production of quantum computers for both research and development and data center (cloud) applications. In addition to France, the company has established a production facility in Canada to supply the North American market.
Founded in 2019 out of France's Institut d'Optique, Pasqal succeeded in developing its first quantum computer that same year — the same year Google announced it had built its first quantum computer. Pasqal drew attention by becoming the first in the world to commercialize a 200-qubit quantum computer. Alain Aspect, one of Pasqal's co-founders and a leading quantum physicist, was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving the existence of quantum entanglement. Pasqal went on to successfully demonstrate a 1,000-qubit system in 2024. A qubit is the basic unit of information processing in a quantum computer, utilizing the quantum states of matter.
