--- title: France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the... description: France is positioning itself as a global quantum computing contender through the PROQCIMA programme, which allocates €500 million to five startups — Alice &... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/france-bets-500-million-that-quantum-computing-is-the-tech-race-europe-can-finally-win-4vtzdpi9m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win | daily.dev og:description: France is positioning itself as a global quantum computing contender through the PROQCIMA programme, which allocates €500 million to five startups — Alice &... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-bets-500-million-that-quantum-computing-is-the-tech-race-europe-can-finally-win-4vtzdpi9m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4vTzdPI9m.png og:image:alt: France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary France is positioning itself as a global quantum computing contender through the PROQCIMA programme, which allocates €500 million to five startups — Alice & Bob, Pasqal, Quandela, Quobly, and C12 Quantum Electronics — each pursuing a different qubit architecture. Alice & Bob's cat qubit approach aims to reduce error correction overhead at the hardware level, potentially requiring far fewer physical qubits than competing designs. The programme is structured as a competitive elimination: after four years, three approaches advance; after eight, two remain, with targets of 128 logical qubits by 2030 and a 2,048-logical-qubit commercial system by 2035. While current machines are not yet commercially useful, France's strong physics talent pipeline and lower energy costs are cited as structural advantages over US incumbents like Google and IBM. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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