The Department of Physics at the University of Naples Federico II has built a computer that will soon be able to operate with a 64-qubit processor. "We are the first in Italy to achieve this computing power", Professor Francesco Tafuri, project head, told Il Sole 24 Ore. Collaborations with large Italian companies—Intesa Sanpaolo, Leonardo—and linkages with European research centers are gaining traction. To the Neapolitan initiative are added the programmes of the University of Salerno and that of Cineca (the Italian computing centre) at its San Giovanni a Teduccio site, on the Federico II campus. The system's focal point is Naples, a hub for international contacts with researchers from all over the world, and where delegations of Dutch and Finnish experts have just gathered to work on the project. This system has many unique features. The new project began in 2022, when it was decided to build the first 5-qubit processor using NRRp funds. "We were able to build a more powerful machine ahead of schedule, with a processing power of 25 qubits", Dr. Tafuri said. "Google demonstrated in 2019 that the identical calculation would take 10,000 years with a conventional computer but only 200 seconds with a quantum computer".