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Draft SRIA 2026: Quantum chips

Draft SRIA 2026 overview / Industrial roadmaps

Draft for consultation. This is the draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda of the second phase of the public consultation, not an adopted agenda: chapters, goals and figures may change.

Source: Strategic Research and Industry Agenda (SRIA) for quantum technologies, Draft for the second phase of the public consultation (Quantum Flagship, 306 pages, PDF dated 2026-09-19). Summaries are in our own words; years, figures and targets are as stated, with the page.

Public consultation: closed on 2026-10-02, as stated on qt.eu. Comments were collected per chapter through the consultation page. qt.eu gives 2 October 2026 as the closing date for every chapter (consultation page and news post of 19 September 2026, read on 27 October 2026); the draft PDF (page 145) states 16 to 30 September. Responses went through one form per chapter on the consultation page.

Seeks repeatable, accessible and trusted quantum chip manufacturing through four levers: resilient fabrication capacity, industrial processes and design kits, demand creation, and cross-cutting enablers, with gate criteria for 2030 and 2035.

Pages
135–167
Themes
Infrastructure, Skills and talent, Standards and benchmarks, Intellectual property, Security, space and defence, Supply chain, Capital and demand

Drafting status: Several baselines are shown as to be established: the figures were being collected in the consultation window, and indicators without a defensible baseline stay open. Page 145

Goals and milestones

Timeline of Quantum chips in the draft SRIANumbered items by year. 2030: 3, 4, 5; 2035: 1, 2, 6, 7.20262027202820292030203120322033203420353451267
Squares are goals, circles are dated milestones; the numbers match the list below.

Showing 3 of 7 items.

  1. Milestone gate criteria 2030

    External access to priority pilot lines operational, TRL 6–7 reached, maps of critical inputs with mitigation plans, and reproducible industrial-grade processes.

    Draft SRIA, page 155

    What the portal shows today

    Technologies: Quantum chips, materials and fabrication

    • 13 projects
    • 25 organisations
    • 1 courses and schools
    • 0 infrastructure entries
    • 2 deployment records

    Confirmed items on the portal, each counted once.

  2. Milestone gate criteria 2030

    Standardised procedures, an initial building-block catalogue, validated PDK and QPDK flows used by external users, and benchmarking below full-stack level.

    Draft SRIA, page 156

    What the portal shows today

    Technologies: Quantum chips, materials and fabrication, Control electronics

    • 33 projects
    • 37 organisations
    • 1 courses and schools
    • 1 infrastructure entries
    • 2 deployment records

    Confirmed items on the portal, each counted once.

  3. Milestone activities 2027–2030

    Create a European Anchor User Alliance and a European Quantum Chips Observatory, and use procurement, grants and Joint Undertaking instruments for market pull.

    Draft SRIA, pages 157 to 158

    What the portal shows today

    Technologies: Quantum chips, materials and fabrication

    • 13 projects
    • 25 organisations
    • 1 courses and schools
    • 0 infrastructure entries
    • 2 deployment records

    Confirmed items on the portal, each counted once.

KPIs as stated in the draft

KPIs of Quantum chips: values as stated in the draft
Objective and indicator2026 baseline2030 target2035 targetPage
Objective 1: Strengthen supply chain and fabrication capacity KPI 1.1: Market share by value of quantum components fabricated commercially in European production facilitiesTo be established (see the note on values)10%35%145
Objective 1: Strengthen supply chain and fabrication capacity KPI 1.2: Share of critical fab inputs with qualified EU or trusted-partner alternativesTo be established (see the note on values)50 %80%145
Objective 1: Strengthen supply chain and fabrication capacity KPI 1.3: Job creation related to quantum chip industrialisation (full-time-equivalent posts)To be established (see the note on values)1 00010 000145
Objective 2: Reliability and responsiveness of the fabrication service KPI 2.1: Distinct external customers completing two or more fabrication runs at the same qualified line within 24 monthsTo be established (see the note on values)550146
Objective 2: Reliability and responsiveness of the fabrication service KPI 2.2: Median lead time from purchase order to delivery of wafers or die, standard process on an existing PDK6 months3 months2 months146
Objective 2: Reliability and responsiveness of the fabrication service KPI 2.2b: Median total time from design submission to return of functional characterisation data1 year8 months6 months146
Objective 3: Define and adopt standard interfaces across the stack KPI 3.1: Percentage of a fixed population of European vendors and facilities implementing at least one validated common interface framework0 %75%90%147
Objective 4: Develop and deploy quantum PDKs KPI 4.1: Share of commercial fabrication runs using validated PDK/QPDK flows~ 0 %75%90 %147
Objective 4: Develop and deploy quantum PDKs KPI 4.2: Distinct non-EU customers completing at least one successful tape-out on a European PDK or QPDK flow, cumulative3625147
Objective 5: Establish pilot lines bridging lab to industry KPI 5.1: Share of qualified line capacity allocated to production-grade manufacturingTo be established (see the note on values)25 %75 %148
Objective 5: Establish pilot lines bridging lab to industry KPI 5.2: Full-flow availability of a qualified process flowTo be established (see the note on values)40 %90 %148

What the portal shows today

Read-only figures of this portal, for orientation; they are not SRIA figures and do not measure progress against the draft.

Confirmed items of the technologies of this chapter

  • 419 projects
  • 119 organisations
  • 3 courses and schools
  • 15 infrastructure entries
  • 9 deployment records

Technology hubs: Quantum chips, materials and fabrication, Control electronics, Photonics, lasers and optics, Superconducting qubits, Spin qubits in semiconductors

Infrastructure deployment tracker

Current Flagship KPIs (SAB booklet 2025)