By hannover-web.com During a recent interview on October 8th, Jia Zhilong, the Deputy Director of the Anhui Province Quantum Computing Chip Key Laboratory, shared some remarkable updates regarding China’s advancements in quantum computing. He announced that the country’s pioneering superconducting quantum computer manufacturing chain is undergoing a major upgrade and expansion.
Jia emphasized that the production line, responsible for creating the 72-qubit “Wukong Chip,” has been operating reliably on the “Benyuan Wukong” system for over nine months. The research team is now focused on scaling up this production line to develop a new generation of superconducting quantum chips that will offer enhanced performance, increased qubit counts, and greater stability.
In addition to the production line upgrades, the current assembly area for autonomous superconducting quantum computers is also being expanded. Presently, this area can accommodate the simultaneous assembly of up to five quantum computers, but after the enhancements, it will have the capacity to assemble at least eight superconducting quantum computers at once.
Since its debut on January 6th of this year, China’s third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer, “Benyuan Wukong,” has successfully processed 270,000 quantum computing tasks from 133 countries and regions worldwide. This achievement represents a significant milestone, showcasing China’s quantum computing capabilities on a large scale for the first time.
