en.Wedoany.com Reported - The LUMI AI Factory, coordinated by CSC – IT Center for Science, has selected hardware manufacturer IQM Quantum Computers to deliver and integrate the IQM Halocene H4 superconducting quantum computer, a system named LUMI-IQ. The system will be deployed at CSC's data infrastructure center in Kajaani, Finland, with installation planned for 2027. The integration contract is co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the sovereign governments of Finland, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Poland. Financially, the total contract value is comparable to IQM's total company revenue for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, as disclosed in the company's public prospectus dated July 1, 2026.
This procurement marks a structural shift in the high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem toward full-stack on-premises quantum deployment. The initial 150-qubit Halocene processing engine will not operate as an independent cloud-accessible sandbox but will be directly adjacent to the pan-European LUMI supercomputer. The physical architecture integrates a dedicated quantum processing unit (QPU) with automated, low-latency classical control infrastructure. This hardware layout enables European R&D teams to execute co-processing workflows, where computationally intensive machine learning loops and molecular calculations can seamlessly switch between high-density classical graphics nodes (GPUs) and the quantum processor without routing latency.
The hardware platform is the IQM Halocene H4 on-premises superconducting processing unit, with an initial capacity of 150 qubits, incorporating active error mitigation and NISQ operations. The facility is located at the CSC IT Center for Science Data Campus (Kajaani, Finland). The funding consortium includes the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, along with Finland, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Poland.
The engineering roadmap, managed by IQM CEO Jan Goetz and CSC Quantum Technology Manager Mikael Johansson, outlines a phased expansion path. The baseline installation in 2027 will serve as an active development platform for quantum error correction (QEC) protocols. Subsequent technology upgrades will systematically scale the number of physical qubits to generate stable logical qubit circuits, driving the platform's transition from noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) behavior to full fault tolerance. This dedicated computing ecosystem will provide academic and industrial innovators with specialized code libraries and training tools, aimed at optimizing quantum-accelerated AI models for materials discovery, pharmaceutical molecular mapping, and grid energy stabilization.
Official procurement disclosures, technical hardware timelines, and international funding details are available through the IQM Quantum Computers newsroom. Regional infrastructure configurations, hardware-portable software libraries, and European research allocation parameters can be reviewed directly via the LUMI Consortium portal.
