SUPREME kicks off
May 13, 2026
The EU-funded SUPREME project officially kicked off this week with a two-day consortium meeting in Helsinki. SUPREME is the European Chips Act pilot line for superconducting quantum circuits. Its goal: to develop scalable, reproducible fabrication processes for superconducting quantum devices and make them accessible to European companies and research institutions.
The project received EUR 25 million in EU funding. With additional national contributions, total funding reaches approximately EUR 50 million for the 42-month programme. A major technical milestone will be the development of a 200-qubit 3D integrated qubit module, demonstrating progress toward reliable large-scale superconducting quantum devices.
Peak Quantum’s role
Peak Quantum operates the German hub of the SUPREME pilot line, hosted at the Halbleiterlabor (HLL) of the Max Planck Society. The company leads Work Package 1 (High-Quality Qubits), which covers process optimization for Josephson junction fabrication on 8-inch wafers, wafer-level characterization, and the development of process design kit (PDK) building blocks.
A strong pan-European consortium
SUPREME brings together 23 partners from eight EU member states, combining semiconductor fabrication expertise, quantum hardware development, and end-user perspectives. Germany contributes significant depth to the consortium, with Infineon Technologies, the Fraunhofer Institutes EMFT, IPMS, and IAS, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, the Walther-Meissner-Institute, and the Max Planck Society’s Halbleiterlabor working alongside Peak Quantum. End-users of quantum chips such as IQM, Alice&Bob, and Qilimanjaro are involved from the start, ensuring that the fabrication capability developed by SUPREME meets the requirements of the European quantum computing industry. The consortium is coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
European quantum chip sovereignty
SUPREME is a direct contribution to European technology sovereignty in quantum computing. Today, no industrial-scale fabrication infrastructure for superconducting quantum chips exists in Europe. The pilot line is designed to close this gap, providing researchers and companies with access to high-quality quantum circuits without reliance on non-European supply chains. For Peak Quantum, SUPREME is the largest and most strategically important project in the company’s portfolio, funding the transition from research-scale fabrication to industrial production on 8-inch wafers.
Consortium partners
The SUPREME consortium involves 23 partners from eight EU member states:
Research organisations and academia: VTT, coordinator (Finland); TNO (Netherlands); Delft University of Technology (Netherlands); Walther-Meissner-Institute (Germany); Fraunhofer EMFT, IPMS, and IAS (Germany); Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Halbleiterlabor (Germany); Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology IPHT (Germany); CEA (France); University of Naples Federico II (Italy); Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy); IFAE (Spain); Silicon Austria Labs (Austria)
Large enterprises: Infineon Technologies AG (Germany); IQM Finland Oy (Finland)
Small and medium enterprises: Peak Quantum GmbH (Germany); Alice & Bob (France); QuantWare BV (Netherlands); Single Quantum BV (Netherlands); QphoX BV (Netherlands); Silent Waves (France); Arctic Instruments Oy (Finland); Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech S.L. (Spain); Amires (Czech Republic)
About Peak Quantum
Peak Quantum is a Munich-based quantum computing company developing error-resilient superconducting quantum chips for scalable industrial applications. It combines chip design, manufacturing, and system integration, and is building a European pilot production facility for superconducting qubits. The focus is on technological sovereignty and the path to practically viable quantum processors.
The company was established in 2024 by a team of scientists with backgrounds at the Technical University of Munich and the Walther Meissner Institute, together with entrepreneurially experienced founders. The founding team includes Leon Koch (CEO), Alexander Schult (CFO), Dr. Thomas Luschmann (COO), Dr. Max Werninghaus (CSO), Ivan Tsitsilin (Head of Design), and Kedar Honasoge (Head of Production).
Peak Quantum is a spin-off of the Walther Meissner Institute, one of Europe’s leading research institutions for superconducting quantum chips, and, as part of Munich Quantum Valley, is embedded in one of the central European innovation ecosystems for quantum computing, connecting academia and industry.
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