{"id":73214,"date":"2017-10-11T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/intel-accelerates-its-quantum-computing-efforts-with-17-qubit-chip"},"modified":"2017-10-11T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:32","slug":"intel-accelerates-its-quantum-computing-efforts-with-17-qubit-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/intel-accelerates-its-quantum-computing-efforts-with-17-qubit-chip","title":{"rendered":"Intel Accelerates Its Quantum Computing Efforts With 17-Qubit Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intel-accelerates-its-quantum-computing-efforts-with-17-qubit-chip.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intel says it is shipping an experimental quantum computing chip to research partners in The Netherlands today. The company hopes to demonstrate that its packaging and integration skills give it an edge in the race to produce practical quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>The chip contains 17 superconducting qubits\u2014the quantum computer\u2019s fundamental component. According to Jim Clarke, Intel\u2019s director of quantum hardware, the company chose 17 qubits because it\u2019s the minimum needed to perform surface code error correction, an algorithm thought to be necessary to scaling up quantum computers to useful sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Intel\u2019s research partners, at the TU Delft and TNO research center <a href=\"https:\/\/qutech.nl\/\">Qutech<\/a>, will be testing the individual qubits\u2019 abilities as well as performing surface code error correction and other algorithms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/computing\/hardware\/intel-accelerates-its-quantum-computing-efforts-with-17qubit-chip\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/computing\/hardware\/intel...qubit-chip<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel says it is shipping an experimental quantum computing chip to research partners in The Netherlands today. The company hopes to demonstrate that its packaging and integration skills give it an edge in the race to produce practical quantum computers. The chip contains 17 superconducting qubits\u2014the quantum computer\u2019s fundamental component. According to Jim Clarke, Intel\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73214","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}