SQC hits quantum milestone in race against big tech challengers
Australia’s Silicon Quantum Computing set a new record in a key benchmark test — just a day after Microsoft unveiled its own quantum breakthrough.
This week, Microsoft unveiled a new chip it claims signals the quantum age is near — but it’s not the only player in the race.
On Thursday, Silicon Quantum Computing, the startup led by Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons, published research it says proves its own quantum machines are just years away.
SQC’s chips solved Grover’s Algorithm — a test only quantum computers can complete — with a record-breaking 98.9% accuracy. Simmons said the results, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrate SQC’s unique advantage as the only company in the world that manufactures its own quantum chips.
"One of the things that we've focused on since the beginning is our in-house atomic manufacturing, that gives us market-leading iteration cycles of about one or two [new chips] a week," Simmons told Capital Brief.
