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Alpine Quantum Technologies

Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) is an Innsbruck-based spin-off from the University of Innsbruck and Austria's Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information that builds trapped-ion quantum computers, using calcium-40 ions held in segmented ion traps with laser-driven gates and shuttling of ions between trap zones in a quantum-CCD-style architecture. It sells rack-mounted systems to research customers and provides cloud access to its hardware through its own service and third-party platforms such as Amazon Braket. It is one of the few European full-stack quantum hardware vendors and competes with other trapped-ion developers rather than the superconducting-circuit mainstream.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 30 September 2026

Headquarters
Innsbruck, Austria
Founded
2018
Status
Private
trapped ion

Coverage

Quantum Zeitgeist

Alpine Quantum Technologies joins €122M effort for 1,000-qubit quantum computer

Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT), a German trapped-ion quantum computing firm, has joined the NFQC-1k consortium, a €122 million project to develop a 1,000-qubit quantum computer. The announcement positions AQT as a hardware contributor within a broader European effort to scale trapped-ion systems.

OutlookPlausible

The consortium funding could enable AQT to demonstrate a multi-trap, 100+ qubit trapped-ion system within two years, validating modular scaling toward the 1,000-qubit goal.

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