PlanQC is a German full‑stack quantum computing company building industry‑relevant machines using neutral atoms trapped in light as qubits. Instead of superconducting circuits that need extreme cryogenics, PlanQC's approach uses optical lattices/tweezers to hold identical atoms (e.g., strontium) in vacuum, enabling hundreds of physical qubits with flexible connectivity and a credible path to scale. The company covers the full stack: hardware, quantum OS/control software, algo

In the global race toward universal quantum computing, one of the most formidable bottlenecks has been hardware overhead. Traditional superconducting quantum processors, such as those relying on standard transmons, require up to 1,000 physical qubits to build a single error-corrected logical qubit.