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We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 794" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612760/quantum-computers-component-shortage/" target="_blank"><strong>We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables - MIT Technology Review</strong></a></p><p></p><p>lake Johnson spends a lot of time thinking about things like superconducting cables and supercooled refrigerators. As the vice president of quantum engineering at <a href="https://www.rigetti.com/" target="_blank">Rigetti Computing</a>, a startup that makes quantum computers, Johnson is responsible for finding and acquiring the components needed to put the machines together. </p><p> </p><p>It’s challenging, because what was once an esoteric, experimental technology <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610250/serious-quantum-computers-are-finally-here-what-are-we-going-to-do-with-them/" target="_blank">is morphing into</a> more of a mainstream one championed by giant companies such as IBM, Google, and China’s Alibaba, as well as by ambitious startups like Rigetti and IonQ. As a result, demand is growing much faster than supply in some critical areas.</p><p></p><p>For instance, it can take many months—and sometimes a year or more—to get hold of specialized dilution refrigerators that can be cooled to temperatures colder than outer space to help create quantum bits, or qubits, which are the key to quantum computers’ power. Another choke point, says Johnson, is the specialized cabling needed to transmit microwave signals that control qubits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 794, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612760/quantum-computers-component-shortage/'][B]We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables - MIT Technology Review[/B][/URL] lake Johnson spends a lot of time thinking about things like superconducting cables and supercooled refrigerators. As the vice president of quantum engineering at [URL='https://www.rigetti.com/']Rigetti Computing[/URL], a startup that makes quantum computers, Johnson is responsible for finding and acquiring the components needed to put the machines together. It’s challenging, because what was once an esoteric, experimental technology [URL='https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610250/serious-quantum-computers-are-finally-here-what-are-we-going-to-do-with-them/']is morphing into[/URL] more of a mainstream one championed by giant companies such as IBM, Google, and China’s Alibaba, as well as by ambitious startups like Rigetti and IonQ. As a result, demand is growing much faster than supply in some critical areas. For instance, it can take many months—and sometimes a year or more—to get hold of specialized dilution refrigerators that can be cooled to temperatures colder than outer space to help create quantum bits, or qubits, which are the key to quantum computers’ power. Another choke point, says Johnson, is the specialized cabling needed to transmit microwave signals that control qubits. [/QUOTE]
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