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Announced during the Vietnam–France Leaders Forum, in presence of Vietnamese President Tô Lâm and French President Emmanuel Macron, the agreement combines Quandela’s full-stack photonic quantum computing platform with Quanova’s local integration capabilities to develop talent, infrastructure and concrete quantum use cases in Vietnam.

Paris, 11 September 2026 – Quandela, a European leader in photonic quantum computing, and Quanova, a Vietnamese quantum technology and ecosystem development company, announce the signing of a strategic partnership agreement aimed at supporting the long-term development of quantum computing capabilities in Vietnam.

The agreement was formalized during the Vietnam–France Leaders Forum, held in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and General Secretary and President of Vietnam Tô Lâm as part of his official visit to France.

Under the agreement, Quanova will act as a strategic integrator for Quandela in the Vietnamese market. The two companies will work together to promote, develop and commercialize solutions based on Quandela’s photonic quantum computing technology.

Their collaboration will include the training of Quanova’s technical and commercial teams, the development of joint offerings, customer engagement and demonstrations, and the identification of relevant use cases with Vietnamese universities, research organizations and businesses.

“Vietnam is emerging as one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic quantum ecosystems. Our ambition is to help turn this momentum into lasting capabilities: trained talent, access to photonic quantum computing and concrete projects for universities, research institutions and businesses,” said Niccolo Somaschi, co-founder and CEO of Quandela. “Quanova’s strong local roots and expertise as a strategic integrator make it the right partner to build this bridge with us.”

The agreement builds on several initiatives already undertaken by Quandela and its Vietnamese partners. With Quanova and other local stakeholders, Quandela recently supported a quantum hackathon organised by VNQuantum and the province of Gia Lai, focused on applications connected to Vietnam’s development priorities.

One of the first concrete initiatives supported by the partnership with Quanova is the quantum technology training programme at Quang Trung University, backed by Nam A Bank as a strategic investor. The programme aims to train students and researchers while expanding their access to quantum computing capabilities.

“Vietnam’s opportunity in quantum will be built through real capabilities: trained teams, access to world-class platforms and projects connected to local needs,” said Nguyen Hoang Hong Nhung, CEO of Quanova. “Working with Quandela will help Vietnamese organizations move from initial exploration to concrete applications, while strengthening the national ecosystem for the long term.”

The two companies also share the ambition of preparing for the future deployment of a photonic quantum computer in Vietnam. Their approach is based on ensuring that any future infrastructure is supported by the skills, software and local ecosystem required to use it effectively and create long-term value.

The agreement signed in Paris provides a framework for developing joint offerings and new opportunities with Vietnamese stakeholders. Quandela and Quanova expect to announce further concrete steps in the coming months.

About Quandela

Quandela is a leading quantum computing company that designs, builds, and delivers cutting-edge quantum solutions for industry: ready-to-use quantum computers for data centres, cloud-accessible quantum processors, and algorithm access services for industrial clients. Quandela is committed to making quantum computing accessible to all in order to address the most complex industrial and societal challenges.

Discover our vision at: Quandela | Leading Photonic Quantum Computing Solutions

About Quanova

Founded in 2025, Quanova is a Vietnamese quantum technology and innovation company focused on education, quantum-readiness consulting, ecosystem building and international collaboration. The company works to connect research, industry and talent development to support the emergence of quantum capabilities in Vietnam.

For more information: www.quanova.org

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Established in Canada, Quandela’s photonic quantum computer is the only device of its kind available to companies participating in this Canada-wide research and development program.

MONTREAL, September 2, 2026 – Quandela, a leading player in photonic quantum computing technologies, has signed a memorandum of understanding with CMC Microsystems to join the Quantum Computing Sandbox as a provider of cloud-based computing services. Quandela’s expertise, based within the country, now joins forces with other providers to offer a comprehensive suite of quantum options made available to small and medium-sized enterprises, organizations, and academic researchers, with the aim of developing and accelerating the solutions that will be applied to a wide range of fields and needs.

“As data sovereignty in the digital realm becomes an increasingly important issue given the current global context, we are proud to be the first to include a Canada-based photonic quantum computer among the cloud computing options available to the participants of the QCS program”, stated physicist Valérian Giesz, Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Quandela. “This will allow their work and data to be entirely hosted on Canadian soil, without having to go through a structure located in another country.”

The Quantum Computing Sandbox (QCS) is supported by FABRiC, an organization funded by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), whose mission is to build an ecosystem which strengthens Canada’s semiconductor sector. QCS’ role, through technical support and research grants, is to foster the development of quantum applications for Canada’s various industrial sectors and fields of activity, including national and strategic projects. CMC Microsystems is the nonprofit organization responsible for managing FABrIC on behalf of the Government of Canada; its mandate is to facilitate affordable access to the tools required for the development of advanced technologies.

Multifaceted support

The memorandum of understanding between Quandela and CMC Microsystems also includes a provision to provide support to companies and organizations whose high-potential projects have been selected, thus granting them access to the Quantum Computing Sandbox. This assistance, which may be both technical and practical in nature, will be offered by Quandela in collaboration with CMC Microsystems. The latter is directly involved in selecting the companies eligible for a grant.

As Quandela and CMC Microsystems already have a well-established relationship, the framework of the QCS program will enable the two entities to further share their expertise and experience with companies, organizations, and universities which do not have teams or personnel sufficiently trained in the rules and requirements of quantum computing.

“Since the algorithms used in certain projects perform better on certain specific computing architectures, integrating Quandela as an additional tool further diversifies the options made available to the participants who have access to QCS, whether in terms of research, prototyping, or implementing solutions,” added Valérian Giesz. “This is what makes the QCS model even more attractive to companies looking to invest not only in the development of quantum solutions, but also in the development of quantum computing itself.”

About Quandela

Quandela is a global leader in quantum computing which designs, builds, and delivers cutting-edge quantum solutions for research and industry, offering the most energy-efficient quantum computers for data centres, comprehensive quantum computing solutions accessible through the cloud, and algorithm access services for academic and industrial customers. Quandela follows a pragmatic and incremental approach, installing industrial systems since 2023 and developing future generations of fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of scaling up through the integration of thousands of photonic components. Quandela is committed to making quantum computing accessible to all in order to address the most complex industrial and societal challenges.

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Hamburg, Germany – June 23, 2026 – Quandela today announced that it has experimentally validated a low-latency integration path between photonic quantum processors and NVIDIA ​AI​​ infrastructure, marking an important milestone toward bringing quantum processing units directly into high-performance computing environments. Results presented at ISC 2026 demonstrate a path toward accelerator-style integration of photonic quantum processors in GPU-driven HPC environments.

The results show how a Quandela photonic QPU can be integrated with an NVIDIA GPU host and an FPGA-based Quantum System Controller through ​​NVIDIA NVQLink. More than a simple interconnect, NVQLink provides a hardware-and-software architecture for low-latency, real-time communication between GPU supercomputing infrastructure ​and quantum system controllers. The validation supports a new execution model for hybrid quantum-classical computing: moving beyond remote quantum access toward collocated quantum acceleration inside HPC infrastructure.

Today, most quantum processors are accessed through cloud APIs, job queues and orchestration layers. This approach remains valuable for experimentation and batch execution, but its asynchronous nature introduces latency that limits workflows requiring real-time responses inside AI or HPC pipelines.

Quandela’s results address this bottleneck. By measuring low-latency communication between GPU infrastructure and the FPGA-based Quantum System Controller, the company has validated a practical route for photonic QPUs to participate more directly in GPU-driven workloads.

“This is not just a demonstration of connectivity,” said Jean Senellart, Chief Technology & Product Officer at Quandela. “This validation confirms a technical path toward integrating photonic QPUs into the HPC accelerator stack. For the HPC community, the important shift is that quantum processors can start to be treated less like remote experimental instruments and more like accelerators deployed alongside GPUs.”

The validation is based on a collocated architecture combining NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking ​with an FPGA-based Quantum System Controller connected to a Quandela photonic QPU. In this model, existing HPC schedulers remain responsible for reservation, allocation and accounting, while the active GPU–QPU session is designed to avoid repeated traversal of the full cloud-style orchestration path.

The first target workloads are in photonic Quantum Machine Learning, including quantum reservoir computing, quantum feature maps and hybrid neural-network architectures. These workloads are particularly well suited to the architecture because many photonic circuits can remain configured during inference, while new data points require only lightweight updates before measurement.

This is where photonics offers a distinctive advantage. For selected QML workloads, the same optical configuration can be reused across many inference calls, while new data points require only lightweight updates before measurement. Combined with fast photonic sampling, this makes system-level latency – not only quantum execution time – a decisive factor in performance, which is why​ the low-latency interaction model enabled by NVQLink is​ crucial for successful operation​.

Quandela’s MerLin framework provides the software environment used to design, simulate, benchmark and validate these hybrid photonic QML workflows. The work also builds on Quandela’s MosaiQ photonic quantum computing platform, whose current systems are designed with FPGA-based control capabilities aligned with the Quantum System Controller model defined by NVIDIA​ ​NVQLink.

​For HPC centers, sovereign AI and quantum programs, advanced research organizations and industrial users, the validation points toward a future deployment model in which a customer-owned photonic QPU could be installed on-premise or in a dedicated data center environment and connected to NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure​.​

“​Tightly integrating quantum systems with accelerated computing is proving hugely impactful for quantum research,” said Sam Stanwyck, Director of Quantum Product at NVIDIA. “Quandela’s work with NVQLink shows how quantum-GPU supercomputing systems will fundamentally transform how we are able to think about computing applications when information can be passed seamlessly between different processors.”​

This announcement marks a technical validation milestone toward low-latency GPU–QPU integration, paving the way for future NVQLink-enabled MosaiQ deployments.

Beyond near-term hybrid AI and QML workloads, the same integration principles are relevant to future quantum computing architectures, where QPUs, FPGA-based control systems and GPU-accelerated infrastructure will need to operate in tightly coordinated environments. Low-latency GPU–QPU integration is therefore both a near-term enabler and a foundation for future hybrid quantum-classical computing systems.

Quandela will present these results at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg on 23 June 2026.

About Quandela 

Quandela is a global leader in quantum computing, designing, building, and delivering cutting-edge quantum solutions for research and industry. Its offerings include the most energy-efficient quantum computers for data centers, full-stack quantum computing solutions accessible via the cloud, and algorithm access services for academic and industrial customers. Following a pragmatic, step-by-step roadmap, Quandela has been deploying industrial-grade systems since 2023 while developing future generations of fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of scaling through the integration of thousands of photonic components. Quandela is committed to making quantum computing accessible to all in order to address the most complex industrial and societal challenges.

Learn more at: Quandela | Leading Photonic Quantum Computing Solutions

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