{"id":146944,"date":"2022-09-24T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/psiquantum-has-a-goal-for-its-million-qubit-photonic-quantum-computer-to-outperform-every-supercomputer-on-the-planet"},"modified":"2022-09-24T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:17","slug":"psiquantum-has-a-goal-for-its-million-qubit-photonic-quantum-computer-to-outperform-every-supercomputer-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/psiquantum-has-a-goal-for-its-million-qubit-photonic-quantum-computer-to-outperform-every-supercomputer-on-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"PsiQuantum Has A Goal For Its Million Qubit Photonic Quantum Computer To Outperform Every Supercomputer On The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psiquantum-has-a-goal-for-its-million-qubit-photonic-quantum-computer-to-outperform-every-supercomputer-on-the-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The founders all believed that the traditional method of building a quantum computer of a useful size would take too long. At the company\u2019s inception, the PsiQuantum team established its goal to build a million qubit, fault-tolerant photonic quantum computer. They also believed the only way to create such a machine was to manufacture it in a semiconductor foundry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early alerts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PsiQuantum first popped up on my quantum radar about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/moorinsights\/2020\/04\/15\/quantum-computing-with-particles-of-light-a-215-million-gambl\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/moorinsights\/2020\/04\/15\/quantum-computing-with-particles-of-light-a-215-million-gambl\/\" aria-label=\"two years ago\">two years ago<\/a> when it received $150 million in Series C funding which upped total investments in the company to $215 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founders all believed that the traditional method of building a quantum computer of a useful size would take too long. At the company\u2019s inception, the PsiQuantum team established its goal to build a million qubit, fault-tolerant photonic quantum computer. They also believed the only way to create such a machine was to manufacture it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146944","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}