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01 · Deep Tech · Ireland

Quantum 2030 Gets Its Game Plan: What Ireland's New Quantum Roadmap Means

A 12-month implementation plan, milestones from Q3 2026 and a €50 million European quantum photonics project in Cork. Here is how Ireland's quantum strategy is moving from vision to delivery.

4 min read/12 September 2026
02 · Deep Tech · Ireland

Inside Cork's Tyndall: The Lab Helping Europe Build Chips Beyond 2nm

Tyndall is a partner in NanoIC, Europe's €2.5 billion pilot line for next-generation chips, and in the PIXEurope photonics line. Why that puts Cork at the heart of Europe's chip future.

4 min read/11 September 2026
03 · Deep Tech · Ireland

Silicon Island, One Year On: How Ireland's Chip Strategy Is Actually Going

Ireland's first national semiconductor strategy launched in May 2025. With the I-C3 chips centre open and European pilot lines landing, here is how the plan is playing out.

4 min read/10 September 2026
04 · Deep Tech · Ireland

Ireland Built a Quantum Computer That Fits in a Server Rack: Inside Equal1's Rise

How Dublin's Equal1 went from unveiling Bell-1, Ireland's first silicon quantum server, to a $60 million raise led by ISIF — and why its bet on ordinary chip factories matters.

4 min read/9 September 2026
05 · Deep Tech · Switzerland

Switzerland Just Became the World's Deep Tech Capital — Here's the Data, and What It Means for Ireland

63% of Swiss venture capital now flows into deep tech — ahead of the US and China. Inside the Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026, and the late-stage scaling gap Ireland shares.

4 min read/3 July 2026
06 · Deep Tech · Germany

Inside Germany's Bet on Fusion: How Proxima Fusion Is Racing to Put Europe on the Grid First

A Munich stellarator start-up now sits at the centre of a €2bn Bavarian plan to build the world's first commercial fusion plant — and Ireland, via Euratom and Europe's new fusion task force, is closer to it than it looks.

4 min read/3 July 2026
07 · Deep Tech · Global

The World Just Got Its First AI Scientific Panel — And Ireland Has a Front-Row Seat

The UN's inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva as Ireland prepares to host Europe's own AI summit in Dublin this October.

4 min read/3 July 2026