Netherlands delivers its first quantum computer to German aerospace institute

QuiX Quantum delivered the Netherlands’ first quantum computer to Germany’s DLR aerospace institute, Financieele Dagblad (FD) reports. The machine, named Carina, is also the world’s first quantum computer to rely on photons — light particles — as its qubits. The Enschede-based startup, a spin-off from the University of Twente, developed and delivered the system.