Intel (Intel) recently announced that the company, together with QuTech, a quantum technology research institution co-founded by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the National Academy of Applied Sciences of the Netherlands, is an advanced quantum computing research center composed of researchers from both parties in Oregon, USA. Intel’s D1 manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, California, successfully mass-produced silicon qubits for the first time.
Its process results can produce more than 10,000 arrays on a single wafer with multiple silicon spin qubits with a yield rate of over 95%. This achievement greatly surpasses the processes currently used by ordinary universities and laboratories in terms of qubit count and yield.
This research has been published innature-electronics” (Nature Electronics), Intel’s first peer-reviewed study demonstrating the successful fabrication of qubits on 300mm silicon wafers.
The new process uses advanced semiconductor fabrication techniques, including all-optical lithography used to produce silicon spin qubits, and the same equipment that produces Intel’s latest generation of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chips. This groundbreaking research is a critical step on the road to scaling up quantum wafer production,Prove that qubits might eventually be produced in the same factories as conventional wafers。
James Clarke, director of quantum hardware at Intel, said that quantum computing has the potential to provide exponential performance for some applications in the field of high-performance computing. Research has shown that quantum computers can not only be popularized, but can also be produced in existing wafer factories. Intel looks forward to continuing to work with QuTech to apply our expertise in silicon manufacturing to unlock the full potential of quantum.
