Intel releases 12-qubit silicon quantum chip to the quantum community
The distribution of the quantum chip to the quantum community is part of Intel’s plan to let researchers gain hands-on experience with the technology, while at the same time enabling new quantum research.
The first quantum labs to get access to the chip include the University of Maryland, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Tunnel Falls chip was fabricated on 300 mm silicon wafers in Intel’s “D1” transistor fabrication facility in Oregon, which can carry out extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) and gate and contact processing techniques.
In recent years, Intel has fallen behind competitors such as IBM and Google who have quantum processors containing as many as 433 qubits.
Yet Intel believes silicon spin qubits are superior to other qubit technologies because of scalability.
Being the size of a transistor, the chip is approximately 50 x 50 nm, making it up to a million times smaller than other qubit types.
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