Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, will establish their U.S. headquarters as a future tenant of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Chicago’s South Side.

Located at a historic and scenic site on Lake Michigan just minutes away from downtown Chicago, the IQMP offers direct access to universities, national labs and transportation for local, national and global connectivity. The multibillion-dollar, 128-acre public-private IQMP will include shared cryogenic facilities, equipment labs and research spaces. Tenants include quantum computing company PsiQuantum and the DARPA-Illinois Quantum Proving Ground and will ultimately become a full ecosystem of companies, researchers, suppliers, end users and other partners. It will be managed by an organization affiliated with the University of Illinois system.

Pasqal’s facility will include a space to house one of the company’s quantum processing units onsite. In addition to the state’s MICRO incentives, Pasqal has secured a $15 million loan from the Illinois Finance Authority’s Climate Bank to support their U.S. project. Pasqal, founded in France in 2019 by Georges-Olivier Reymond, Christophe Jurczak, Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Alain Aspect, Dr. Antoine Browaeys, and Dr. Thierry Lahaye, leads the world in neutral-atom quantum computing. The company builds and commercializes quantum computers powered by neutral atom technology — an innovation that has been advanced over the past two decades by the Charles Fabry Laboratory. Headquartered in Palaiseau, just south of Paris, Pasqal ​ operates subsidiaries in eight countries and employs a team of more than 300 professionals worldwide.

The first-of-its-kind park will accelerate the development of quantum technologies, offering new tools for solving global problems.