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Quantum computing breakthrough could happen with just hundreds, not millions, of qubits using new error-correction system
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists have designed a physical qubit that behaves as an error-correcting "logical qubit," and now they think they can scale it up to make a useful quantum computer using a few hundred.

Future quantum computers could use bizarre 'error-free' qubit design built on forgotten research from the 1990s
By Nicholas Fearn published
Qubits can be made by floating a suspended electron over a pool of liquid helium rather than being embedded them a solid-state crystal — which leads to impurities and errors.

Weird magnetic 'skyrmion' quasiparticle could be used as a bit in advanced computing memory
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently in advanced memory components that would replace RAM and flash storage.

Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' that mimics the human brain
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Intel's Hala Point neuromorphic computer is powered by more than 1,000 new AI chips and performs 50 times faster than equivalent conventional computing systems.

Why quantum computing at 1 degree above absolute zero is such a big deal
By Andre Luiz Saraiva De Oliveira, Andrew Dzurak published
Operating at even marginally warmer temperatures means quantum computers could be much easier to operate — and much more widely available.

New York college becomes 1st university with on-campus IBM quantum computer that is 'scientifically useful'
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
IBM's latest System One quantum computer is based at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is the 1st IBM quantum machine to be installed at a university campus in the U.S.

Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists used a technique called 'active syndrome extraction' to build four logical qubits from 30 physical ones and run 14,000 experiments without detecting a single error.

What is quantum computing?
By Peter Ray Allison last updated
Reference Quantum computing opens the door to ultra-powerful machines that can perform calculations that would take supercomputers millions of years.

Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to twice as fast and consume 50% less energy.

World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day.
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