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MIT boffins reckon they've cracked one of the more difficult challenges of practical quantum computing – the miniaturisation of components. In a paper at Nature, the Karan Mehta, Colin Bruzewicz, Robert McConnell, Rajeev Ram, Jeremy Sage and John Chiaverini say they've printed an ion trap and optical waveguide together in a …

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  1. ecofeco Silver badge

    Strange days

    Computing is going to be very strange in 30 years.

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    1. Neoc
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      Re: Strange days

      @ecofeco: As opposed to the last 30 years...? ^_^

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      1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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        Well you must admit that we haven't had very many qubits in the past 30 years.

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        1. jonathan1
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          Well its evolved over the last thirty years...has there been a revolution though?

          I mean smaller, faster, more cores, more bits, greater efficiency and few to no jumper setting. (Goodness that was fun/ball ache). The move to local power from mainframes and now in certain situations its becoming distributed again.

          A move to quantum computing would be a leap... Sorry I'll get my coat.

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          1. Gene Cash Silver badge
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            Well, the only two revolutions have been the IC itself, and IBM's GMR disk drive heads. GMR heads took us from 5MB in a shoebox to terabytes in a deck of playing cards, and that was the result of some serious basic physics R&D at Big Blue.

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