The Intel Institute released the first low-temperature control chip code "Horse Ridge" to speed up the development of the full stack quantum computing system. As an important milestone on the quantum practical road, Horse Ridge implements the control of multiple quantum bits and indicates the direction to larger system extensions.
Based on Intel 22 Nano FinFET Technology, Intel and Qutech (jointly founded by Dalft University of Technology and the Netherlands Applied Academy) jointly developed HORSE RIDGE. The manufacturing of the control chip is completed in Intel, which will greatly improve Intel's ability to design, test, and optimize business feasible quantum computers.
Picture Description: The Chief Engineer of the Intel Institute Stefano Pellerano handheld Horse Ridge chip. This new low temperature control chip will accelerate the development of the full stack quantum computing system, marking the business feasible quantum computer to develop to new milestones.
Intel Quantum Hardware Director Jim Clarke said: "Although people attach great importance to the quantum bits itself, it is also a major challenge of multiple quantum sites. Intel recognizes that quantum control is the core link in the development of large-scale commercial quantum system development. This is why Intel investment quantum error correction and control technology. Through Horse Ridge, Intel has developed an expandable control system, which can greatly speed up the test speed and achieve the potential of quantum calculations. "
In a competition that realizes the function and potential of quantum computers, researchers are widely paid to the manufacture of quantum bits, build test chips to demonstrate a small number of quantum bits operating in superimposed methods to increase computing capacity. However, during the early quantum hardware development, such as the design, testing and characterization of Intel Silicon Self-rotation and Superconductive Subsystem, Intel discovered that the main bottlenecks for realizing commercial scale quantum calculations were interconnected and controlled electronic devices. With Horse Ridge, Intel launched a fine solution that controls multiple quantum bits and expands to more quantum bits in the future, which is an important milestone on the quantum practicability.
Quantum computers are expected to solve problems that traditional computers cannot process, as quantum bits can exist in multiple states at the same time, with this quantum physics phenomenon, quantum bits can simultaneously calculate, thereby greatly accelerating the speed of solving complex problems. If the exhibition of quantum practicality is a marathon, then the quantum research field has just run a mile. The quantum research sector should be based on quantum practicality, determine whether a quantum system can provide subversive performance, thereby solving problems in the real world. Intel's investment in quantum covers the entire hardware and software stack to develop a practical, commercially available quantum system and put it in commercial.
Currently, researchers have been committed to building a small scale quantum system to demonstrate the potential of quantum equipment. In these attempts, researchers rely on existing electronic tools and high-performance computer rack-level instruments to connect the quantum system in the low temperature refrigerator to the conventional computing device programmed by the system and programmed the system. These devices are typically custom designed to control a single quantum bits. If you want to control quantum processors, you will need hundreds of cables to enter and out of the refrigerator. However, this extensive control wiring for each quantum bit will be bound to the ability of the quantum system, so that it cannot be extended to the hundred thousand quantum bits needed to prove the quantum practicability, and more no need to say business feasible quantum solutions. Millions of quantities required.
With Horse Ridge, Intel is fundamentally simplifies the control electronics required to run quantum systems. By replacing these huge instruments with a highly integrated system chip (SOC), the system design is simplified, and the complex signal processing technology is allowed to speed up the set time, improve the quantum performance, and make the system to be efficiently expanded to more Quantum bit. Horse Ridge is a highly integrated hybrid signal system chip that introduces quantum bits into quantum refrigerators to do it close to the quantum bits itself. Horse Ridge effectively reduces the complexity of quantum control engineering, simplifies a single integrated kit that is running near the quantum equipment from the hundred cables in the refrigerator.
The Horse Ridge is designed to control the quantum bit running in the refrigerator, and its programming instruction corresponds to the operation of the basic quantum bit, which will be converted into electromagnetic microwave that can be operatively active Pulse.
The Horse Ridge control chip is named in the coldest region of Oregon, and can work at a low temperature of approximately 4 Kairen. Intuitive, 4 Kelvin is only a little bit higher than absolute zero, and its temperature is low, almost stops atoms. With the progress of Intel's self-rotation quantity, this result is especially exciting, because silicon is expected to work slightly higher than the temperature required for the current quantum system.
Today, quantum computers operate in millive temperature range, which is only a fraction of absolute zero. However, the characteristics of the silicon from the spin range can be operated at 1 Kaire or higher, which will greatly reduce the challenge of the cooling quantum system. As the study continues to make progress, Intel's goal is to make low temperature control and silicon from the same temperature at the same temperature. Intel can make full use of expertise in advanced packaging and interconnect technology, create a solution that integrates quantum bits and control devices into a thin package.
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