Juan M. Martinisone of this year’s winners of Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in quantum computingformed an alliance on Monday with HPE and several chip companies to create a practical, mass-producible device. quantum supercomputer. Quantum computers promise to solve problems in chemistry, medicine and other fields that would require classic computers thousands of years.
Big tech companies like IBM, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, where Martinis worked before co-founding his current startup Qolab, are racing to develop the technology. But those efforts are largely one-offs, with small teams building one computer at a time. The new group, called Quantum Scaling Allianceaims to build quantum computers that can be made with the same tools that produce hundreds of millions of chips a year for smartphones, laptops or artificial intelligence servers.
Since the first field work in the 1980s, quantum chipsthat work through what are known as qubits, have been made “in a…
