Irish startup Equal1 has unveiled the worlds first quantum computer that runs on a hybrid quantum-classical silicon chip.
Dubbed Bell-1 after quantum physicistJohn Stewart Bell the computer weighs around 200kg and plugs into a regular electrical socket.
The rack-mountable machine is designed to simply slot into high-performance computing (HPC) data centres alongside standard servers.
The potential applications are endless.
Were leveraging established semiconductor technologies to scale up faster than the competition,said Lynch.
This is the best way to scale quantum computing at the pace required.
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The more you have, the faster the machine.
Most quantum computing technologies are based on eithertrapped-ionor superconducting qubits.
However, Equal1s design usessilicon-spin qubits.
Bell-1 is noticeably smaller than most quantum computers out there.
For comparison, Googles recently unveiled Willow chip has 105 qubits.
However, Googles machine isnt available to buy Bell-1 is.
Equal1s quantum journey
Equal1 was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from University College Dublin.
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)recently backed Equal1 with an undisclosedinvestment.
That competition pool is growing, though, and fast.
In the past few months alone, Google launched quantum chip Willow, Microsoft unveiledMajorana,and Amazon revealedOcelot.
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Story bySion Geschwindt
Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy.
