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Innovative Ion Trap on a Semiconductor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-closer-all-the-time dept.

Denix writes "MIT's TechnologyReview has an interesting article on a silicon-based "ion trap" in order to host a "qubit." The Ion Trap technology 'uses electric and magnetic fields to isolate a charged particle from its environment -- a prerequisite for exploiting the temperamental quantum properties of electrons."

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  1. Re:They're not really super fast. by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed my point.

    BTW this is why I always thought calling them "computers" is misleading. When you say computer you expect the full thing, being able to handle any PC tasks you throw at it.

    I'd rather call it Quantum Processing Unit (QPU), and just like FPU before it it'll play together with the core CPU, not replace it, since you still need a "normal" CPU to display the interface, code editor, to compile code and to show the results of the quantum computations of the QPU.

    You can't just grab a QPU and adapt it to do all tasks a moden CPU can. They're just .. different thing.