Europe has yet to open a commercial factory for quantum chips. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen aims to be the first, and on September 4 it laid out plans for a production site in the Danish capital. The 5,300-square-meter plant is scheduled to start operations in 2027.
The company, created by the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2023, builds its own equipment and processes for the job. Its cleanrooms will handle material growth and patterning for quantum devices along with assembly, packaging and testing, and vacuum-based stages will protect the most sensitive structures. Outside developers will be able to buy wafer services, something European quantum startups have lacked close to home.
Bloomberg first reported the price tag, which sits near $62M. The foundation behind the project controls drugmaker Novo Nordisk through its holding company and has pledged more than DKK 2.9B to quantum science, close to EUR 390M. Research at Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, paid for out of the same budget line, is pushing toward error-corrected machines that can tackle longer algorithms.
Chief executive Peter Krogstrup said he expects the site to become the industrial base that European quantum firms build on as they move from prototypes to products. The project also lands as the EU pushes its Quantum Europe strategy and a forthcoming Quantum Act to strengthen regional quantum manufacturing.
