News No More Silicon? Company Develops Glass CPU for Quantum Computing

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IonQ has replaced the typical silicon with a fused glass-based chip, allowing for unprecedented levels of scaling for the company's trapped-ion approach to quantum computing.

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[velocityg4]

Uh, glass is typically made of silicon.

 

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Uh, glass is typically made of silicon.

And the article even says "silica glass" so mostly silicon.

There is no shortage of silicon itself since it is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust. What there is a shortage of is refining and wafer processing capacity to turn it into enough chips to meet demand.

 

[husker]

"IonQ has decided to go the trapped ion way when it comes to reaching quantum supremacy - the moment where problems that are impossible to solve in a classical, Turing-based computer are finally served to quantum computing's platter - and solutions emerge where billions of years of required, classical computation only existed moments ago. "

Maybe someday quantum computers will be able to decipher this sentence.