ZuriQ Raises $25.5M Led by Quantonation to Build Quantum Chips That Scale Like Semiconductors
Start with what a quantum computer actually is, because the industry never bothers to explain it. Your laptop stores everything as bits, tiny switches that are either 0 or 1. A quantum computer uses qubits, which can be 0 and 1 at the same time, a genuine weirdness of physics that lets the machine explore huge numbers of possibilities at once.
That is why governments and companies believe these machines will one day design new drugs, new batteries and new materials that no normal computer could ever figure out.
But here is the catch nobody puts out: to do any of that useful work, you need thousands of qubits working together. The best machine on earth today only has 98!
Why so few? Because of how the qubits are built. One of the leading methods, called trapped ions, uses single charged atoms as qubits, floating in a vacuum, held...
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