Pasqal Welcomes Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministerial Delegation to French Headquarters

Insider Brief

• Pasqal hosted a senior Saudi Arabian delegation at its French headquarters and quantum computer production site to demonstrate its neutral-atom quantum computing technology.
• The delegation observed Pasqal’s quantum processing unit, a live atom-by-atom rearrangement demonstration, and the company’s manufacturing and testing operations.
• The visit follows Pasqal’s recent initiatives in Saudi Arabia, including the launch of a quantum computer at Aramco and a planned joint venture with Eleven Ventures to expand quantum computing across the Kingdom and the wider MENA region.

Press release – Pasqal, a global provider of neutral-atom quantum computers, today welcomed a delegation of senior leaders from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (the “Kingdom”), led by His Excellency Engineer Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, at its French headquarters and quantum computer production site.

The delegation brought together His Excellency Engineer Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology; His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Bin Talal; His Excellency Engineer Haytham AlOhali, Governor of the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST); and Saeed AlDobas, Executive Vice President of AI Infrastructure and Cloud at HUMAIN.

During the visit, the delegation observed a quantum processing unit and a live demonstration of atom-by-atom rearrangement, the technique Pasqal uses to build and reconfigure the atomic registers at the core of its neutral-atom quantum computers. The delegation also toured the manufacturing line where Pasqal assembles, calibrates and tests the systems it ships to customers, and visited the company’s engineering offices.

The visit comes on the heels of two initiatives involving Pasqal and the Kingdom: the inauguration of the Kingdom’s first quantum computer at Aramco’s data center earlier this year, and a recently announced agreement with Eleven Ventures to establish a commercial joint venture to scale quantum computing across the Kingdom and the broader MENA region. Both sit within the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 agenda, which places advanced computing among its national technology priorities.

“We build our quantum computers in France on our own production line, and we deliver them to our customers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America” said Wasiq Bokhari, Chief Executive Officer of Pasqal. “That is what the delegation came to see: quantum computing moving from the laboratory to industrial deployment. It is not something you can show on a slide.”

For more on Pasqal’s plans to expand its quantum computing presence in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region, see our earlier coverage of its joint venture with Eleven Ventures.