Scientists create 10 billion qubits in silicon, get us closer than ever to quantum computing

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We are totally ready for a quantum computer. Browse the dusty Engadget
archives and you'll find many posts about the things, each charting
another step along the way to our supposed quantum future. Here's
another step, one that we think is a pretty big one. An international
team of scientists has managed to generate 10 billion quantum
entangled bits, the basic building block of a quantum computer, and
embed them all in silicon which is, of course, the basic building
block of a boring computer. It sounds like there's still some work to
be done to enable the team to actually modify and read the states of
those qubits, and probably a decade's worth of thumb-twiddling before
they let any of us try to run Crysis on it, but yet another step has
been made.

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