Can we do quantum computing without the room-sized fridge?
From my latest at Forbes:
Quantum Art, an Israeli quantum computing startup, is developing a compact quantum processing architecture that could dramatically increase the practicality and performance of quantum computers. The company claims its design can support up to one million physical qubits in a unit roughly the size of a small device, enabled by dense trapped-ion arrays, multi-qubit gate operations, and dynamic optical segmentation.
These techniques allow many operations to run in parallel and reduce the time spent shuttling qubits between zones: one of the major bottlenecks in today’s quantum systems.
The result, the company says, could be 100× more parallelism and 100× more operations per second compared to current approaches, all in a footprint small enough to fit in a handful of standard data-center server racks. Quantum Art projects achieving quantum advantage by 2027 and scaling to more than 10,000 logical qubits by 2033.
While the timeline depends on engineering execution, the company believes it has already solved the key conceptual challenges in its architecture.
Get the full story in my post at Forbes … and check out my TechFirst podcast with the CEO of Quantum Art.