{"id":232244,"date":"2026-02-27T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/could-a-niche-80s-technology-be-the-key-to-better-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:09:09","slug":"could-a-niche-80s-technology-be-the-key-to-better-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/could-a-niche-80s-technology-be-the-key-to-better-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-a-niche-80s-technology-be-the-key-to-better-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconducting computing circuits were briefly heralded as the future of computing in the 1980s. Columnist <strong>Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/strong> visits a quantum chip foundry where one company is betting this technology\u2019s second act will revolutionise quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/karmela-padavic-callaghan\/\">Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconducting computing circuits were briefly heralded as the future of computing in the 1980s. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan visits a quantum chip foundry where one company is betting this technology\u2019s second act will revolutionise quantum computers. By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232244","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\/232244","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}