D-Wave Delivers Advantage2 Annealing Quantum Computer to Italy

Insider Brief

• D-Wave has delivered its Advantage2 annealing quantum computer to Villa Saporiti in Como, Lombardy, Italy, with installation planned to provide European researchers, universities and businesses with access to the system.
• Funded by Swiss Quantum Technology SA (SQT) under a €10 million agreement, the system, named VoltaB1 within the Q-Alliance ecosystem, will be accessible through D-Wave’s Leap quantum cloud service once operational.
• The Advantage2 system features more than 4,400 qubits and is intended to support applications in optimization, materials simulation and other industrial workloads.

PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced at Digital Innovation Forum 2026 that its Advantage2^TM annealing quantum computer has arrived in Lombardy, Italy, for installation at Villa Saporiti in Como. Funded by Swiss Quantum Technology SA (“SQT”), the system, referred to within the Q-Alliance ecosystem as the VoltaB1, will give European researchers, universities and businesses access to powerful, production-grade annealing quantum computing technology once installed. Its arrival marks an important step in Q-Alliance’s work to turn Italy’s quantum ambitions into research capabilities, practical applications and industrial opportunity.