News Researchers pack a "quantum light factory" into a 1mm² CMOS chip — combines photonics, electronics, and quantum hardware with traditional silicon...

[Admin]

Researchers have created a 1 mm² chip that merges quantum photonics, electronics, and self-tuning systems—all on a standard 45 nm CMOS process. This breakthrough brings mass-producible quantum hardware closer than ever, much like the Intel 4004 did for microprocessors.

Researchers pack a "quantum light factory" into a 1mm² CMOS chip — combines photonics, electronics, and quantum hardware with traditional silicon... : Read more

 

[usertests]

What is the chip useful for? Is it a full quantum computer with a handful of qubits?

Even something basic like "quantum random number generation" might be useful enough to be included in microcontrollers like ESP32 if the chips are tiny enough and customers want that capability.

 

[ezst036]

Hopefully it can clip into this universal Super Socket 7 board here which would make it really useful.

 

[husker]

" It’s not hard to imagine a future where quantum and AI hardware share similar silicon platforms. "

I, for one, am terrified of this

 

[wwenze1]

The current transistors take a voltage on the control pin (gate) to control if electrons pass

We just need something that takes photon intensity to control if photon pass

 

[GenericUsername109]

As far as I understand it, there is no quantum computing equivalent of RAM, yet. This pretty much disqualifies the tech from running any tasks needing lot of data, such as "AI" (machine learning and inference).
Though I guess this will still encourage QC cultists to pump the garbage QC stocks (Rigetti, D-Wave, IonQ, QUBT, etc.) some more.