Creation of “hot qubits” is a major breakthrough in Quantum computing

Manufactured using conventional silicon chip foundries, this could lead to cheaper & more robust quantum computing

Moore’s Law has fueled chip innovation for the past five decades — it dictates that computing power roughly doubles every 18 months or so while the price got cheaper at the same time. This was achieved by doubling the number of transistors on a chip. As the transistors got smaller, traditional computers became faster, but we have now reached a point where these ultra-tiny transistors can no longer reliably control the flow of electrons.

This so-called “quantum tunneling” can cause the electrons to jump from one side of the transistor to the other, creating computing errors. It is increasingly becoming difficult for the conventional chips to become any smaller and therefore, Moore’s Law seems to have hit a wall, as far as more efficient processor development is concerned.

Luckily, we have an answer to this in the form of next-gen quantum computers. We have taken some huge strides in the field of Quantum computing in the last couple of years — from Google & IBM developing the next-gen quantum computers to players like Microsoft & Amazon offering Cloud-based quantum computing services, to…