Quantum computer with 5-qubit chips launchedBy Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerAcademia Sinica yesterday unveiled a quantum computer based on 5-quantum-bit (qubit) chips, connecting the device to the Internet to enable its use in scientific research by the institution’s members and partners. Academia Sinica Institute of Physics distinguished research fellow Chen Chii-dong, left, poses with another researcher at the institute’s quantum computing laboratory in an undated photograph. The 5-qubit computer is now available for use as a test and development platform for quantum computing, ultra-low temperature complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and operational amplifier research programs, it said. The Taiwanese research team has consistently outperformed expectations despite being given less time and resources than the quantum computer research programs of foreign nations, Academia Sinica President James Liao (廖俊智) said. Academia Sinica’s work in quantum computing is intended to blaze a trail for the nation’s private sector and generate the momentum necessary to sustain the investment in talent and education, Liao said.

Source: Taipei Times January 20, 2024 09:19 UTC