Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Sep 2007 21:48 UTC, submitted by SReilly
For the first time the components that underlie quantum computing's great potential - qubits - have been linked on chips like those in conventional computers. Two US research teams used superconducting circuits to make two of the quantum components linked by a quantum information cable or bus. The bits that work together on calculations in a normal computer can exist in two states - either 0 or 1. But qubits can inhabit both at once, allowing them to process many calculations simultaneously when they get together.
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2006-12-28
Wow, the first step towards the next generation of supercomputing has been taken by two different groups.
Now if we can only develop super conductive materials that work at room temperature, we'd no longer have to worry about Moor's law!
What say you guy's, five or ten years?