As exciting as it may be to hear about a breakthrough 127-qubit quantum computer or promises of 1,000 qubits by 2023, the reality is that quantum computing is still not a mainstream computing technology that produces game-changing real-world results with massive and obvious impact.
That’s using chips with impressive speeds — 30 to 40 gigahertz — that operate at very low temperatures to avoid destabilizing qubits.
“What we’re focused on really is figuring out a strategy for how to scale a quantum computer,” CEO John Levy told me recently on the. “As much as IBM will get to a thousand or thousands of qubits ... the question is how do we get to ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million qubits so that we actually scale quantum computers to the complexity of the problems that large companies care about.
And what that has the potential to do, according to SEEQC, is take quantum from the computing equivalent of the Werner Braun V2 rocket to something much more like SpaceX: scalability, repeatability, and lower cost.“Right now, the cost of building a qubit ... with readout, control, tuneable couplers ... is at about $10,000 per qubit,” Levy says. “Not long ago, it was around $40,000. So there’s been a real improvement there.
While SEEQC is making specific purpose-built machines today, the end goal, Levy says, is general purpose quantum computers. And that requires scale, which fits quite well with a foundry-based approach to making quantum computers.
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