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EuroHPC launches EUR 4 million Q-Neko project with Japan on quantum HPC

EuroHPC JU launched Q-Neko, a EUR 4 million Horizon Europe project pairing ten European partners including CSC, IQM and CEA with five Japanese organisations to build shared benchmarks and standards for quantum accelerated high performance computing.

Verified EuroHPC Joint Undertaking press release, 6 July 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that any quantum hardware or standard has been delivered, only that a 36 month research project has started.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. EUR4M EU-Japan research project on QC-HPC standards; no hardware/standard delivered yet. European Sovereignty Index

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