Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy OBrien: 'If you think the goal is
to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders' a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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The race to build a useful quantum computer is heating up

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter One of the most exciting areas in technology is quantum computing, but it's also one of the areas that's
been among the least accessible, difficult to relate to the real world, and still largely buried away in the lab. To reach the point at which quantum computers become useful, there's still plenty of work to be done. "If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders. If you realize that the goal is to reach the moon, you take a completely different approach." Jeremy O'Brien, April 2023 The race to a million qubits There are, and continue to be, different approaches to
building quantum computers as well as all the components that power them. But the goal among all companies and institutions is the same: to build a machine that can outpace the fastest classical computer. Quote of the day This
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cofounder and CEO of quantum computing company PsiQuantum, Jeremy O'Brien,
was sharing his vision behind his organization, essentially saying that his team had attempted to work against a forged consensus. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

Rather than scaling up qubits from a handful to 100 or 1,000, he said at the time that he was "fanatical" about getting to a million-plus qubits the
point at which experts expect there to be a meaningful performance leap. New architectures and approaches Intriguingly, O'Brien's comments came at a time when sheer scale and qubit count were the most sought-after elements in a quantum computer. You may like Quote of the day by Alphabet CEO Sundar
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Since that point, so much research in the space has shifted not to the sheer size of the chips and how many qubits they can hold, but to building better qubits. Because quantum processors are so prone to failure, researchers have instead been trying to build processors with a few error-resistant qubits
over millions of basic error-prone qubits.

The goal is still to achieve a quantum computer that can outpace classical machines, but experts expect that due to new breakthroughs , these quantum computers may need far fewer qubits than the millions we thought just a few years ago. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the
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