Oxford Ionics has recently discovered the world’s highest-performing quantum chip that can be mass-produced in a standard semiconductor plant.
The company said that the quantum chip provides two times more performance than the previous chips and uses 10 times fewer qubits without any need for error correction.
Building high-performance quantum computers is very challenging because of the creation of high-performance qubits and managing those qubits in a scalable way. However, the only technology that can help build quantum computers is trapped ions, but the downside is that it’s hard to scale the ions using the lasers.
However, the new quantum chip was created through a patented Electronic Qubit Control system that takes the trapped ions and integrates everything needed to control them into a silicon chip. This approach eliminates the need for lasers to control trapped ions.
The Associate Professor of Quantum Computing, Aleks Kissinger, expressed that the new chip was “very promising.” The company also revealed that this invention “indicates the dawn of useful quantum computing is far closer than previously thought.”
The increased qubit performance also suggests that powerful quantum computers can be built with fewer qubits and valuable commercials can be deployed on time.
Dr. Michael Cuthbert, Director of the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre, said, “The new results mark a pivotal step forward in ion trap quantum computing and validate the scalability of the technology.”
Dr. Tom Harty, co-founder and CTO at Oxford Ionics, further added, “We have now proven that our approach has delivered the highest level of performance in quantum computing to date.”
With the new reports and proven engineering, the company now plans to build a scalable 256-qubit chip that can be manufactured on the existing semiconductor plants.
