{"id":138604,"date":"2022-04-25T03:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psiquantums-path-to-1-million-qubits-by-the-middle-of-the-decade"},"modified":"2022-04-25T03:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:50:01","slug":"psiquantums-path-to-1-million-qubits-by-the-middle-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psiquantums-path-to-1-million-qubits-by-the-middle-of-the-decade","title":{"rendered":"PsiQuantum\u2019s Path to 1 Million Qubits by the Middle of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/62Y7uT26hzo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four researchers with roots at Bristol University, Stanford University, and York University, is one of a few quantum computing startups that\u2019s kept a moderately low PR profile. (That\u2019s if you disregard the roughly $700 million in funding it has attracted.) The main reason is PsiQuantum has eschewed the clamorous public chase for NISQ (near-term intermediate scale quantum) computers and set out to develop a million-qubit system the company says will deliver big gains on big problems as soon as it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>When will that be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psiquantum.com\/\">PsiQuantum<\/a> says it will have all the manufacturing processes in place \u201cby the middle of the decade\u201d and it\u2019s working closely with GlobalFoundries (<a href=\"https:\/\/gf.com\/\">GF<\/a>) to turn its vision into reality. The generous size of its funding suggests many think it will succeed. PsiQuantum is betting on a photonics-based approach called fusion-based quantum computing (<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2101.09310\">paper<\/a>) that relies mostly on well-understood optical technology but requires extremely precise manufacturing tolerances to scale up. It also relies on managing individual photons, something that has proven difficult for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four researchers with roots at Bristol University, Stanford University, and York University, is one of a few quantum computing startups that\u2019s kept a moderately low PR profile. (That\u2019s if you disregard the roughly $700 million in funding it has attracted.) The main reason is PsiQuantum has eschewed the clamorous public [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}