«We are trying to develop the basic working unit of a quantum chip, the equivalent of
the transistor on a silicon chip,» Vuckovic said.
Not exact matches
Unlike traditional computers, in which a
silicon chip's
transistors are either turned
on or off, a qubit can be both at the same time.
Quantum computing relies
on particles called quantum bits, or qubits, to process data, unlike modern computers that rely
on transistors packed into conventional
silicon chips.
«Our design incorporates conventional
silicon transistor switches to «turn
on» operations between qubits in a vast two - dimensional array, using a grid - based «word» and «bit» select protocol similar to that used to select bits in a conventional computer memory
chip,» he added.
To work around the limits of that approach, Intel flipped the planar
transistor's
silicon on its side into a fin that juts up out of the plane of the
chip.