News Summary

• A quantum computer based on silicon microchips could in theory perform, in hours, complex calculations that would take today’s best classical (non-quantum) computers longer than the lifetime of the Universe.
• Silicon transistors are cheap, fast and reliable, and there is considerable interest in applying this technology to quantum computers.
• Two papers in Nature take on the challenge of connecting and controlling ‘quantum transistors’ in silicon quantum processors.
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