The NEQIOS project has launched with a successful kickoff meeting, bringing together an outstanding consortium of partners united by a shared ambition: developing a new generation of brain-inspired computing systems integrateing analogue in-memory computing, integrated photonics, and reconfigurable nonlinear computing.
Supported by the prestigious European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Open programme, NEQIOS represents a bold step toward breakthrough computing technologies designed to address some of today’s most complex scientific and industrial challenges by tackling NP-hard optimization problems that scale exponentially and are intractable for conventional systems. NEQIOS proposes a compact neuromorphic platform that physically emulates key quantum properties, offering a robust, room-temperature alternative that drastically reduces energy use (below 1 mW) and solution time (microseconds).
The project is coordinated by Prof. Wilfred van der Wiel and combines expertise from leading research institutions and technology partners across Europe. The kickoff highlighted the strong scientific synergy within the consortium and laid the foundation for an exciting period of research, innovation, and collaboration.
