Intel : Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is a new computing paradigm that harnesses the power of quantum mechanics to deliver the ultimate in parallel computing. It has the potential to tackle problems that conventional computing - even the world's most powerful supercomputers - can't quite handle. While this technology will be transformational for areas such as drug development, logistics optimization, and natural disaster prediction, we need to overcome many challenges - and pass many mile markers - on this incredible journey of discovery before it can be ready for mainstream business adoption and deliver broad societal impact. Intel is advancing its vision of quantum practicality in collaboration with leading industry and academic partners to bring quantum from the lab to commercial reality. Intel's quantum computing research spans the complete stack - from qubits and algorithms research to control electronics and interconnects-required to make practical quantum computers for real-world applications a reality.

Intel Labs Day 2020

At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel spotlighted research initiatives across multiple domains where its researchers are striving for orders of magnitude advancements to shape the next decade of computing. Themed 'In Pursuit of 1000X: Disruptive Research for the Next Decade in Computing,' the event featured several emerging areas including integrated photonics, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, confidential computing and machine programming. Together, these domains represent pioneering efforts to address critical challenges in the future of computing, and Intel's leadership role in pursuing breakthroughs to address them.
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Quantum Computing News

• Intel Debuts 2nd-Gen Horse Ridge Cryogenic Quantum Control Chip (News Byte)
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy Announces the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee: Jim Clarke, director of quantum hardware in the Components Research Group at Intel, appointed as a member of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. (Energy.gov News Release)
• Intel Collaborates with Argonne National Laboratory, DOE in Q-NEXT Quantum Computing Research (News Byte)
• Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity 'Hot' Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems (News Byte)
• Intel Introduces 'Horse Ridge' to Enable Commercially Viable Quantum Computers (News Byte)
• What It Will Take to Make Quantum Computers Practical (Editorial)
• The Race to Commercially-Viable Quantum Computing Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint (Editorial)
• Intel Spotlights Research in Silicon Spin Qubits and Quantum Applications Development at American Physical Society (News Byte)
• Intel Drives Development of Quantum Cryoprober with Bluefors and Afore to Accelerate Quantum Computing (News Byte)
• Biographies: James P. Held | James S. Clarke | Anne Matsuura
• Other Press Kits: Intel Labs | Neuromorphic Computing

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• Anne Matsuura is the director of Quantum Applications and Architecture at Intel Labs. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• James S. Clarke is the director of the Quantum Hardware research group within Intel's Components Research Organization. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• A close-up photo shows a dilution refrigerator used for cooling Intel's quantum systems to create the ideal environment for optimal qubit performance. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel's director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke, holds the new 17-qubit superconducting test chip. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel's 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing has unique features for improved connectivity and better electrical and thermo-mechanical performance. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• The outside of a dilution refrigerator, which creates the ideal environment for qubit performance at Intel Labs' campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• An Intel researcher adjusts a dilution refrigerator, which creates the ideal environment for qubit performance at Intel Labs' Hillsboro, Oregon, campus. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• An Intel researcher examines ways to improve the dilution refrigerator's operating temperature for maximum computation efficiencies at Intel Labs' Hillsboro, Oregon, campus. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• Researchers at Intel explain the delicate adjustment process for mechanisms on a quantum computer's dilution refrigerator to external stakeholders on Intel Labs' Hillsboro, Oregon, campus. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• Intel researchers work to develop alternative methods for keeping qubits in superposition for longer periods of time. One method is adjusting the dilution refrigerator at Intel Labs' Hillsboro, Oregon, campus. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• Intel's dilution refrigerator at Intel Labs' Hillsboro, Oregon, campus allows qubits to operate at a constant temperature fractions of a degree above absolute zero while in superposition. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• A close-up photo shows one of Intel's quantum computing chips that has an isotopically purified silicon spin qubit wafer installed within it. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Researchers at the Intel Labs campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, work to install a dilution refrigerator used to create the perfect performance environment for qubits. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• A researcher works to install a dilution refrigerator used for cooling Intel's quantum systems at the Intel Labs campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• A researcher at the Intel Labs campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, works to install a dilution refrigerator used to advance research findings toward quantum practicality. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• A researcher closely examines an isotopically purified silicon spin qubit wafer used in Intel's quantum technology. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• A 2018 photo shows Intel's new quantum computing chip balanced on a pencil eraser. Researchers started testing this 'spin qubit chip' at the extremely low temperatures necessary for quantum computing: about 460 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Intel projects that qubit-based quantum computers, which operate based on the behaviors of single electrons, could someday be more powerful than today's supercomputers. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• A close-up photo shows an isotopically purified silicon spin qubit wafer Intel Labs uses to create scalable designs for achieving quantum practicality. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel Corporation has invented a spin qubit fabrication flow on its 300 mm process technology using isotopically pure wafers like this one. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
• Intel Corporation has invented a spin qubit fabrication flow on its 300 mm process technology using isotopically pure wafers like this one. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)

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• Jim Clarke, Intel Corporation's director of quantum hardware, holds an Intel 49-qubit quantum test chip, called 'Tangle Lake,' in front of a dilution refrigerator at QuTech's quantum computing lab inside Delft University of Technology in July 2018. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• Florian Unseld (left) and Kian van der Enden, research assistants at QuTech, work on a readout tool for an Intel quantum test chip at Delft University in July 2018. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• Dr. Leonardo DiCarlo, professor of superconducting quantum circuits, works on a dilution refrigerator for quantum computing at Delft University of Technology in July 2018. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• Brian Tarasimski, (left) post-doctoral researcher, and Dr. Leonardo DiCarlo, professor of superconducting quantum circuits, both of QuTech, work on a dilution refrigerator for quantum computing at Delft University of Technology in July 2018. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photo shows a dilution refrigerator at QuTech's quantum computing lab. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photo shows a dilution refrigerator at QuTech's quantum computing lab. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photo shows a dilution refrigerator at QuTech's quantum computing lab. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photo shows a dilution refrigerator at QuTech's quantum computing lab. QuTech at Delft University of Technology is Intel Corporation's quantum computing research partner in the Netherlands. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photos shows an Intel Corporation-manufactured wafer that contains working spin qubits. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
• A July 2018 photos shows an Intel Corporation-manufactured wafer that contains working spin qubits. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)

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• Changing the World with Quantum Computing | Intel
• Intel & Qutech Advance Quantum Computing Research (B-roll)

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• Intel Advances Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing Research (News Byte)
• Intel Starts Testing Smallest 'Spin Qubit' Chip for Quantum Computing (News Byte)
• Intel Sees Promise of Silicon Spin Qubits for Quantum Computing (News Byte)

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• Intel Labs Press Kit
• Intel Labs Overview
• Intel's 49-Qubit Processor: The Future of Quantum Computing is Counted in Qubits