ZURICH, Switzerland, October, 2026 – ZuriQ and Rhonexum have announced a multi-year commercial framework agreement. Under the agreement, Rhonexum will supply cryogenic integrated-circuit technologies and customization services to ZuriQ, which will evaluate the potential of each of these solutions to advance its trapped-ion quantum computing roadmap.
This partnership brings together ZuriQ’s trapped-ion quantum computing expertise and Rhonexum’s cryogenic electronics technologies to address future scaling and performance requirements. It establishes a framework for future orders, product deployments, and technical collaboration.
Quantum computing is rapidly accelerating toward industrial deployment and scalable commercial systems. As quantum processors scale, demand is growing for specialized hardware and electronics that improve performance, reduce complexity, and enable more compact system architectures. A longstanding challenge in scaling trapped-ion quantum computing is to reduce the overhead in control signals per qubit that travel from room-temperature sources into a cryogenic environment. ZuriQ’s architectural advances together with Rhonexum’s cryogenic electronics expertise provide a unique approach that can enable denser qubit arrays while retaining flexible reconfiguration capabilities.
This agreement has already resulted in a first quantity of Rhonexum’s inaugural product scheduled for delivery by the end of this year. Extending beyond a traditional customer-supplier relationship and including long-term technical cooperation, ZuriQ will benefit from privileged access to selected Rhonexum technologies and future product developments, while direct feedback from ZuriQ will help Rhonexum shape future products for trapped-ion quantum computing applications.
“We are pleased to formalize our collaboration with Rhonexum through this multi-year commercial agreement,” said Pavel Hrmo, CEO of ZuriQ. “The partnership combines highly complementary capabilities and gives us access to specialized cryogenic electronics technologies that support our future deployment roadmap.”
“This agreement is a significant milestone for Rhonexum, as I strongly believe partnerships between hardware innovators are increasingly important to bridge the gap between R&D efforts and breakthroughs and commercial adoption.", said Vicente Carbon, CEO of Rhonexum. “Partnering with ZuriQ validates the relevance of our technology and provides a clear pathway toward deployment in next-generation quantum computing systems through a long-term commercial relationship.”
The partnership reflects the increasing collaboration between Swiss quantum startups as the sector matures. With roots in the ETH Zurich and EPFL innovation ecosystems, ZuriQ and Rhonexum demonstrate how academic excellence can translate into commercial partnerships, and how specialized Swiss companies are joining forces through concrete commercial initiatives to strengthen Swiss and European quantum capabilities.
“Collaboration across the Swiss quantum ecosystem is becoming increasingly important to accelerate industrial adoption and strengthen Europe’s position in the global quantum technology landscape,” said Pavel Hrmo, CEO of ZuriQ, at QIDiS 2026.
About ZuriQ
ZuriQ is a Swiss quantum computing company based in Zurich, spun out of Professor Jonathan Home’s laboratory at ETH Zurich in 2024. Its founders, Dr. Pavel Hrmo, Dr. Tobias Sägesser and Dr. Shreyans Jain, developed a trapped-ion architecture that combines electric and magnetic fields to create natively two-dimensional, reconfigurable qubit arrays. The company is building processors designed to scale to the thousands of qubits needed for industrially useful quantum computing.
About Rhonexum
Rhonexum develops integrated circuits that operate at cryogenic temperatures close to absolute zero, directly inside quantum computing systems. Built on semiconductor processes and proprietary modelling tools, its electronics help remove the control-signal and cabling bottleneck that limits how far quantum computers can scale. A spin-out from the AQUA Lab at EPFL, Rhonexum was founded in Lausanne in 2025 by Vicente Carbon and Dr. Hung-Chi Han.
www.rhonexum.com
