Alice & Bob has announced the construction of a $50 million quantum hardware facility in Paris, featuring a 4,000 m² chip development lab with a nanofabrication cleanroom and infrastructure to support its next-generation QPU lines: Lithium, Beryllium, and Graphene. The facility will include a cryostat farm housing 20 dilution refrigerators to enable parallel experimentation and development, with a dedicated section for testing Graphene, a 100-logical-qubit machine scheduled for 2030. The lab is funded by the company’s recent $103 million Series B.
The site will integrate systems from Quantum Machines and Bluefors, who will provide quantum control electronics and cryogenic infrastructure, respectively. The facility’s QPU roadmap will leverage cat qubit architectures, which are designed to suppress bit-flip errors natively, thereby reducing overheads for quantum error correction. This lab will also support direct testing by external users and serve as a development environment for commercial quantum computing systems.
By consolidating nanofabrication, control, and test infrastructure in a single location, Alice & Bob aims to accelerate development cycles and deliver scalable, fault-tolerant quantum hardware. The company’s chips are being designed for integration into modular systems, and the new facility supports the transition from lab-scale prototypes to larger-scale deployment and benchmarking under operational conditions.
Full press release available here.
May 9, 2025
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