{"id":73284,"date":"2017-10-13T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/intel-moves-towards-production-quantum-computing-with-new-17-qubit-chip"},"modified":"2017-10-13T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:11:11","slug":"intel-moves-towards-production-quantum-computing-with-new-17-qubit-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/intel-moves-towards-production-quantum-computing-with-new-17-qubit-chip","title":{"rendered":"Intel moves towards production quantum computing with new 17-qubit chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intel-moves-towards-production-quantum-computing-with-new-17-qubit-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intel\u2019s quantum computing efforts have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/intel-delivers-17-qubit-superconducting-chip-advanced-packaging-qutech\/\" rel=\"noopener\">yielded a new 17-qubit chip<\/a>, which the company has just delivered to its partner in that field, QuTech in the Netherlands. It\u2019s not a major advance in the actual computing power or applications \u2014 those are still in very early days \u2014 but it\u2019s a step toward <em>production<\/em> systems that can be ordered and delivered to spec rather than experimental ones that live in a physics lab somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Intel\u2019s celebration of this particular chip is a bit arbitrary; 17 isn\u2019t some magic number in the quantum world, nor does this chip do any special tricks other quantum computer systems can\u2019t. Intel is just happy that its history and undeniable expertise in designing and fabricating chips and architectures is paying off in a new phase of computing.<\/p>\n<p>I chatted with Intel\u2019s director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke, about the new system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zZ4Gvw140\">https:\/\/t.co\/0zZ4Gvw140<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel\u2019s quantum computing efforts have yielded a new 17-qubit chip, which the company has just delivered to its partner in that field, QuTech in the Netherlands. It\u2019s not a major advance in the actual computing power or applications \u2014 those are still in very early days \u2014 but it\u2019s a step toward production systems that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73284","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\/73284","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}