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EuroHPC opens €11.95m MeluXina-Q quantum tender

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The tender for a quantum computer in Luxembourg is worth up to €11.95m, split equally between EuroHPC and the Luxembourg government.

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Key takeaway

A research-scale quantum system for Luxembourg, jointly funded and with no supplier chosen yet.

EuroHPC opened procurement on 23 July for MeluXina-Q, a quantum computer to be sited in Luxembourg, worth up to €11.95 million and funded half by the joint undertaking and half by the Luxembourg government.¹

The figure sets expectations. Eleven and a bit million euros buys a modest research-grade quantum system, one of several the EU has been siting across member states so that national research communities have physical access to hardware rather than renting time on machines owned elsewhere. EuroHPC is buying access for European researchers at this price, not competitive performance, and the contrast with the bloc's multi-billion-dollar commitment to buying artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators from the United States under Pax Silica in June sets the two orders of magnitude side by side. No supplier has been selected and the tender has yet to close.

Deep Analysis

In plain English

EuroHPC, the EU's shared supercomputing programme, has opened a call for companies to bid on building a quantum computer called MeluXina-Q in Luxembourg, worth up to nearly €12 million, split evenly between the EU and Luxembourg's government.

What could happen next?

Meaning
The tender adds a quantum-computing project alongside the same-day MeluXina-AI contract, expanding Luxembourg's role as a EuroHPC hosting site.

Sources:EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

Mentions:EuroHPC JU →United States →Luxembourg →Pax Silica →MeluXina-AI →

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Different Perspectives

Poland

Poland leads a self-announced AI Gigafactory consortium with a EUR 100 million phase-one commitment, matched by Czechia and joined by Hungary at EUR 25 million. EuroHPC has confirmed no consortium for the call closing 12 November, so the bloc exists only in national announcements so far.

UK Government (DCMS)

Secretary of State Lisa Nandy told the Commons on 3 September she has inherited the sovereign AI brief from Liz Kendall, but gave no assessment, figure or date on frontier-model access. It is the first public claim of ownership since DSIT's abolition, without the substance the committee asked for.

ASML

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet credited Intel Foundry, not a European fab, with shipping the first high-volume logic product made on High-NA EUV, the tool only ASML builds. Europe holds the chokepoint tool; the company that spent it into volume production first is American.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg joined Mistral's Series D as a new investor on 8 September, the same government that co-funds EuroHPC's MeluXina-AI supercomputer. One small member state now funds the sovereign compute Mistral may need and holds equity in the company using it.

Samsung Electronics

Samsung led Mistral's Series D on 8 September and the same day expanded its ASML collaboration on next-generation lithography. One Korean company now sits atop Europe's largest AI funding round and inside its most sensitive chip-tooling relationship.

Mistral AI

Mistral closed a EUR 3 billion Series D above a EUR 21 billion valuation on 8 September, with Samsung leading and Luxembourg joining as a new state investor. The company markets itself as Europe's non-American AI option even as the round's lead capital comes from South Korea and two US private-equity firms.