--- title: France National Quantum Update: October 2026 | daily.dev description: France's quantum sector deepened ties with Vietnam in October 2026 while pushing integration with classical computing at home. Quandela signed a two-year MOU... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/france-national-quantum-update-october-2026-8r7fkrqom twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: France National Quantum Update: October 2026 | daily.dev og:description: France's quantum sector deepened ties with Vietnam in October 2026 while pushing integration with classical computing at home. Quandela signed a two-year MOU... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-national-quantum-update-october-2026-8r7fkrqom og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8R7fKrqom.png og:image:alt: France National Quantum Update: October 2026 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 National Quantum Update: October 2026 **[The Quantum Insider](https://daily.dev/sources/thequantuminsider)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary France's quantum sector deepened ties with Vietnam in October 2026 while pushing integration with classical computing at home. Quandela signed a two-year MOU with Vietnam's FPT Corporation, and Quanova chose Quandela's MosaiQ system for a program meant to deploy Vietnam's first quantum computer. Quobly and SiPearl agreed to explore combining silicon-spin quantum processors with European CPUs. Alice & Bob reported PROQCIMA progress toward 1,000 logical qubits by 2032, and decoded its cat-qubit error correction on GPUs via NVIDIA NVQLink using synthetic data. Separately, Alice & Bob estimated that its cat-qubit architecture needs 40 times fewer physical qubits than a 2025 Google estimate to break RSA-2048, requiring 22,593 qubits. Pasqal's 256-qubit processor found quantum magnet behavior that classical simulation methods disagreed on. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many qubits does Alice & Bob estimate are needed to break RSA-2048 with cat qubits? Alice & Bob estimates 22,593 qubits are needed to break RSA-2048 using its cat-qubit architecture, according to the paper 'Shor's algorithm compiled on cat qubits: 22,593 qubits for RSA-2048 in 3.14 days.' This figure represents 40 times fewer physical qubits than Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney's 2025 estimate for the same task. _Developers tracking post-quantum cryptography timelines can follow estimates like this on daily.dev._ ### What is the goal of France's PROQCIMA quantum computing program? PROQCIMA is a French government program, led by the Defense Innovation Agency (AID) and the Direction générale de l'Armement, aiming to develop two universal quantum computer prototypes each supporting 1,000 logical qubits, ready for industrialization by 2032. It is structured as a 10-year competition where three candidates continue after four years, narrowing to two beyond year eight. _Engineers evaluating national quantum roadmaps can track programs like PROQCIMA on daily.dev._ ### What did Pasqal's 256-qubit neutral-atom processor discover about quantum magnets? Pasqal's 256-qubit processor revealed that a two-dimensional quantum magnet takes far longer to settle after being disturbed than theory predicts, under conditions where three state-of-the-art classical simulation methods disagreed with each other. The results, obtained with the Flatiron Institute, University of Augsburg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Regensburg and Institut d'Optique-CNRS, remain a preprint. _Researchers comparing quantum hardware claims against classical simulation limits can follow this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [French National Quantum Update: June 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/french-national-quantum-update-june-2026-eg7vxqrmx) · The Quantum Insider · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win](https://daily.dev/posts/france-bets-500-million-that-quantum-computing-is-the-tech-race-europe-can-finally-win-4vtzdpi9m) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [French National Quantum Update: September 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/french-national-quantum-update-september-2026-qtklioyje) · The Quantum Insider · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#quantum-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/quantum-computing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/france-national-quantum-update-october-2026-8r7fkrqom) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"France National Quantum Update: October 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/france-national-quantum-update-october-2026-8r7fkrqom","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/france-national-quantum-update-october-2026-8r7fkrqom"},"datePublished":"2026-10-30T13:14:43.099Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T13:15:12.183Z","description":"France's quantum sector deepened ties with Vietnam in October 2026 while pushing integration with classical computing at home. 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