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IQM Quantum delivers 54-qubit quantum system to Brazil’s Eldorado Institute

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September 17, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

IQM Quantum Computers will deliver a 54-qubit quantum computer to Brazil’s Eldorado Research Institute, marking the first such deployment in South America. The IQM Spark system will be installed at Eldorado’s Campinas headquarters, located 100 kilometers northwest of São Paulo, in the first quarter of 2027.

This installation provides Brazilian researchers and industry partners with both on-site access and remote connectivity to IQM’s European cloud system. “Brazil has the talent, the research base and the ambition to build a real quantum ecosystem,” says Jan Goetz, CEO and Co-founder of IQM Quantum Computers, “What’s been missing is direct access to real quantum computers.”

IQM’s 54-Qubit System Expands Quantum Access to South America

Installation of the 54-qubit IQM Spark quantum computer at the Eldorado Research Institute is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027, establishing a dedicated quantum computing resource within South America. This deployment, occurring at Eldorado’s Campinas headquarters, will provide both on-site computational access and simultaneous remote connectivity to IQM’s existing European cloud infrastructure.

This dual-access approach allows Brazilian researchers to utilize locally owned hardware while scaling projects to larger quantum systems as needed, overcoming limitations imposed by hardware availability. Located approximately 100 kilometers northwest of São Paulo, Eldorado’s Campinas facility benefits from proximity to the Unicamp campus and Brazil’s largest technology cluster, facilitating collaboration with a network of startups and industrial partners spanning automotive, energy, fintech, agribusiness, and healthcare sectors.

Eldorado intends to use the quantum computer to explore quantum algorithms, develop expertise in both quantum hardware and software, and investigate hybrid computing architectures integrating high-performance computing, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The institute views this investment as a means to prepare Brazil for active participation in the developing quantum future, extending beyond mere technological acquisition to encompass knowledge creation and ecosystem development.

IQM’s expansion into South America reflects a broader period of growth for the company; as of August, its order backlog reached EUR 102 million, with 26 full-stack systems sold and 17 delivered globally, including a recent installation in the United States, the company says. José Bertuzzo, Superintendent of the Eldorado Research Institute, added, “Quantum computing has the potential to transform how we address some of the most complex technological and industrial challenges.

By bringing this infrastructure to Eldorado, combined with access to more advanced quantum computing capabilities, we are not only investing in technology, we are investing in people, knowledge and an ecosystem that will prepare Brazil to actively participate in the quantum future.”

Brazil has the talent, the research base and the ambition to build a real quantum ecosystem. What’s been missing is direct access to real quantum computers.

Jan Goetz, CEO and Co-founder of IQM Quantum Computers
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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