Quantum chips just proved they’re ready for the real world

UNSW Sydney nano-tech startup Diraq has shown its quantum chips aren't just lab-perfect prototypes - they also hold up in real-world production, maintaining the 99% accuracy needed to make quantum computers viable.

Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, achieved this feat by teaming up with European nanoelectronics institute Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec). Together they demonstrated the chips worked just as reliably coming off a semiconductor chip fabrication line as they do in the experimental conditions of a research lab at UNSW.

UNSW Engineering Professor Andrew Dzurak, who is the founder and CEO of Diraq, said up until now it hadn't been proven that the processors' lab-based fidelity - meaning accuracy in the quantum computing world - could ...