The company announces its latest huge chip — but will now focus on developing smaller chips with a fresh approach to ‘error correction’.
  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Wait, seriously? That’s quite a jump from the last one I heard about.

    Also: it’s actually 1,121 qubits, even more impressive.

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Isn’t that also quite the small form factor? I still had the fridge sized copper monstrosities in mind when thinking of quantum computers

      • e0qdk@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        The attached picture says 133 qubits, so whatever that chip is (edit: Heron) it’s not this thing.

        IBM’s post (that the article links) says:

        Breaking the 1,000-qubit barrier with Condor

        We have introduced IBM Condor, a 1,121 superconducting qubit quantum processor based on our cross-resonance gate technology. Condor pushes the limits of scale and yield in chip design with a 50% increase in qubit density, advances in qubit fabrication and laminate size, and includes over a mile of high-density cryogenic flex IO wiring within a single dilution refigerator.

        So, it sounds like this is actually another fridge sized system.