Helsinki, March 4 -- Finland's leading research institute VTT and computer company IQM announced on Tuesday that they have developed and launched Europe's first 50-qubit superconducting quantum computer.
The computer is located at premises of the state-owned VTT Technical Research Centre in Micronova in Espoo, southern Finland, and is open to researchers and companies through the VTT QX quantum computing service.
"With this quantum computer, we can develop applications and new algorithms for material modeling and simulation, optimization problems, and artificial intelligence," said Erja Turunen, VTT's executive vice president, in a press release.
IQM Quantum Computers' co-CEO and co-founder Jan Goetz disclosed that the 50-qubit system is...