QUBIC Consortium Awarded Funding under Ireland’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund

Equal1 is part of the consortium behind QUBIC, one of six groundbreaking projects selected for funding under DTIF Call 7, announced by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

The €36.9 million investment supports transformative technologies across quantum, MedTech, and advanced manufacturing. QUBIC stands at the forefront of Ireland’s quantum innovation ecosystem.

Through QUBIC, Equal1 and our partners will advance quantum algorithms, hardware, and software to develop quantum-enabled solutions addressing Ireland’s most pressing challenges in energy, climate modelling, advanced materials, and pharmaceuticals.

This collaboration, with Algorithmiq Computing Ltd, Biosimulytics Ltd, CeADAR  - Ireland’s National AI Centre (UCD), C-QuEST, Dell Technologies, Irish Manufacturing Research Centre (IMR), Nexalus Ltd, UCD Energy Institute, and UCD School of Computer Science, reflects Equal1’s mission to make scalable, energy-efficient quantum computing a reality, by unifying quantum and classical computing on a single silicon chip.

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