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Tristan Greene

RARE PHOTOS: Breakthrough 3d wiring architecture enables 10 000 qubit quantum processors | Vintage Vibes

A 3D rendering of the quantum processing unit.

Scientists say they've developed a breakthrough 3D wiring solution that allows a 100-fold increase in the number of quantum bits (qubits) a quantum computing chip can support.

Typical quantum computing processors (QPUs) are built with two-dimensional, horizontal wiring, just like the central processing units (CPUs) in our classical devices. But this traditional wiring limits the number of qubits scientists can cram onto a given processor. Currently available chips from Google and IBM, for example, contain approximately 105 qubits and 120 qubits, respectively.

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