The new computer is expected to cost around a quarter of a billion. But it will outperform the Leibniz Supercomputing Center's current top dog by a factor of 30 in terms of computing power - and serve as a heater.

The French IT service provider Atos is about to sell its high-performance computing division to the French state. As the company announced on Monday, the advanced computing activities are to go to the government in Paris.

Q.ANT's photonic native computing technology processes data using light instead of electrons. It can therefore handle complex computing tasks more efficiently than today's chip technologies. The innovative photonic chip technology therefore has the potential to completely change the digital landscape.