{"id":79643,"date":"2018-06-15T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/starts-testing-smallest-spin-qubit-chip-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:04:35","slug":"starts-testing-smallest-spin-qubit-chip-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/starts-testing-smallest-spin-qubit-chip-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Starts Testing Smallest \u2018Spin Qubit\u2019 Chip for Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starts-testing-smallest-spin-qubit-chip-for-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intel researchers are taking new steps toward quantum computers by testing a tiny new \u201cspin qubit\u201d chip. The new chip was created in Intel\u2019s D1D Fab in Oregon using the same silicon manufacturing techniques that the company has perfected for creating billions of traditional computer chips. Smaller than a pencil\u2019s eraser, it is the tiniest quantum computing chip Intel has made.<\/p>\n<p>The new spin qubit chip runs at the extremely low temperatures required for quantum computing: roughly 460 degrees below zero Fahrenheit \u2013 250 times colder than space.<\/p>\n<p>The spin qubit chip does not contain transistors \u2013 the on\/off switches that form the basis of today\u2019s computing devices \u2013 but qubits (short for \u201cquantum bits\u201d) that can hold a single electron. The behavior of that single electron, which can be in multiple spin states simultaneously, offers vastly greater computing power than today\u2019s transistors, and is the basis of quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/intel-starts-testing-smallest-spin-qubit-chip-quantum-computing\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/intel-starts-testing-smalles...computing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel researchers are taking new steps toward quantum computers by testing a tiny new \u201cspin qubit\u201d chip. The new chip was created in Intel\u2019s D1D Fab in Oregon using the same silicon manufacturing techniques that the company has perfected for creating billions of traditional computer chips. Smaller than a pencil\u2019s eraser, it is the tiniest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79643","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=79643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79643\/revisions\/79816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}