{"id":207812,"date":"2025-03-04T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T23:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-computing-startup-says-its-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T23:11:31","slug":"quantum-computing-startup-says-its-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-computing-startup-says-its-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Startup Says It\u2019s Already Making Millions of Light-Powered Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-startup-says-its-already-making-millions-of-light-powered-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum announced last week that it has cracked a significant puzzle on the road to making the technology useful: manufacturing quantum chips in large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>PsiQuantum burst out of stealth mode in 2021 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/psiquantum-raises-450-million-to-build-its-quantum-computer-11627387321\">a blockbuster<\/a> funding announcement. It <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/australia-just-made-a-billion-dollar-bet-on-building-the-worlds-first-useful-quantum-computer-in-brisbane-will-it-pay-off-228992\">followed up<\/a> with two more <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/australia-just-made-a-billion-dollar-bet-on-building-the-worlds-first-useful-quantum-computer-in-brisbane-will-it-pay-off-228992\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company uses so-called \u201cphotonic\u201d quantum computing, which has long been dismissed as impractical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum announced last week that it has cracked a significant puzzle on the road to making the technology useful: manufacturing quantum chips in large quantities. PsiQuantum burst out of stealth mode in 2021 with a blockbuster funding announcement. It followed up with two more last year. The company uses so-called \u201cphotonic\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207812","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\/207812","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}