Quantum computing specialist EeroQ recently announced the successful tape-out of its Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) chip. Codenamed “Wonder Lake” (which makes it sound like someone’s been paying attention to Intel’s codenames), Eeroq’s QPU was taped-out at a US semiconductor manufacturing foundry. Due to using a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) manufacturing approach that drinks deeply from standard chip manufacturing knowledge, the company expects its helium-based qubits to turn out far more scalable (and thus sustainable) than other qubit manufacturing approaches.
Qubits are units of computation in the quantum realm which are expected to unlock orders of magnitude more processing power in specific tasks, such as optimization problems, material physics, chemistry, and others.
