- Switzerland
- Private company
- Zurich, Switzerland
- EU projects: computing and simulation 4, sensing 1 (some areas are keyword suggestions pending review)
Fact sheet
- Type
- Private company CORDIS (portal record), retrieved 18 October 2026
- Legal form
- Company limited by shares (LEI found by legal name and country) GLEIF, retrieved 20 October 2026
- Country and city
- Switzerland CORDIS (portal record), retrieved 18 October 2026Zurich (company sources) Wikidata, retrieved 23 October 2026
- Founded
- 2008 (company sources) Wikidata, retrieved 23 October 2026
- Identifiers
- LEI 506700B1XXBW9DC49Q09 (found by legal name and country) GLEIF, retrieved 20 October 2026Wikidata Q8075392 (company sources) Wikidata, retrieved 23 October 2026
- Patents
- 3 quantum patent families (applicant "Zurich Instruments AG") EPO Open Patent Services, retrieved 22 October 2026
- EU and national projects
- 7 projects in this catalogue CORDIS, Funding & Tenders Portal, national funders
- Not yet known from our sources
- Employees, Revenue and capital
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Identity
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- LEI (GLEIF)
- 506700B1XXBW9DC49Q09
- Registered legal name
- Zurich Instruments AG (CH)
- Registered direct parent
- None reported: a reporting exception is registered
- Registered ultimate parent
- None reported: a reporting exception is registered
Sources: GLEIF Level 1 and Level 2 data (CC0), retrieved 20 October 2026.
Ownership
Recorded ownership changes
- Acquired by Rohde & Schwarz (DE), 2021-07-01. to be run as a full subsidiary.
Ownership changes in European quantum
Sources: the public record of ownership changes, sources checked 2026-10-26; profile stored 2 November 2026.
EU projects and funding
7 EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS name this organisation as a participant (start years 2017 to 2026).
Net EU contribution to this organisation: EUR 2,334,751. The sum of its own net EU contribution in each of these projects, as CORDIS records it per participant.
Projects by technology pillar
- Quantum computing and simulation: 4
- Quantum sensing and metrology: 1
Follow the money: all awards by programme and country
Source: CORDIS (European Commission), snapshot retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents; stored 2 November 2026.
Funding rounds and lab-to-market journey
- First EU-funded quantum project
- 2017-09-01: GreQuE
- First EIC Pathfinder or Transition project
- 2026-02-01: MECH-QUBIT
- Stages reached
- EU-funded quantum project in CORDIS; EIC Pathfinder or EIC Transition project
Source: lab-to-market journeys built from CORDIS and the curated funding rounds file, stored 2 November 2026.
Technology families and SRIA goals
Source: the shared quantum technology taxonomy of the portal, assignments confirmed by an editor; profile stored 2 November 2026.
Related goals of the draft SRIA 2026
7 goals of the draft SRIA 2026 concern these technologies; the first 6 are listed.
- Milestone by 2030: 100 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2030, matching the Commission objective of about 100 logical qubits by 2030.
- Goal by 2035: 1000 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2035; the draft calls this the lower edge of broad utility rather than an end point.
- Goal in 2035: Superconducting: run fully error-corrected algorithms on hundreds of qubits without unwieldy overhead, by making the best qubits first and then scaling; analogue and annealing processors show certified utility within HPC workflows.
- Milestone 2027 review milestone: A dependency map across computing, communication and sensing validated by at least ten European system developers with SME representation; an operational monitoring function; documented KPI baselines and first benchmarks.
- Milestone 2030 review milestone: An EU-designed quantum control chipset at TRL 5.
- Goal by 2035: Europe is a leading location for industrialising quantum chips and hardware building blocks, moving from fragmented research fabrication to repeatable, accessible and trusted manufacturing.
Source: draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda 2026 (Quantum Flagship, draft for consultation, 2026-09-19), checked 2026-10-24. Related by technology family only, not by anything this organisation said.
Capabilities on public record
From the supplier directory: each capability with its strongest evidence. A contract, a documented product, a product line or software shows supply; an EU-funded project or a confirmed technology area shows research activity. Not an endorsement or a qualification.
- FPGA-based real-time control (Superconducting circuits) Product line (curated)
- Readout mixers and digitisers (Superconducting circuits) Product line (curated)
- Room-temperature control electronics (Superconducting circuits) Product line (curated)
- Waveform generators and microwave sources (Superconducting circuits) Product line (curated)
- Software: control stack and hardware design Open-source software it develops
- Qubit chip (Superconducting circuits) EU-funded project naming the capability
Zurich Instruments AG is listed in 7 project(s) in this CORDIS quantum-related snapshot. Recorded net EU contribution across these projects: EUR 2,334,751. Coverage is limited to the imported dataset; participation is not a verified quantum technology capability.
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS). Retrieved 2026-10-16. Licence: European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). Selected administrative metadata, adapted presentation. No endorsement by the source is implied. Organisation-level data only. Licence: European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
Source: cordis.europa.eu · checked 16 Oct 2026