Intel earlierAnnounceThe company has launched a quantum computing chip codenamed "Tunnel Falls" with a 12-qubit design. It is currently being provided to internal teams for use and will be made available to universities, other academic institutions, and related research institutions in the future.
"Tunnel Falls" is named after a waterfall located about a two-hour drive from Intel's factory in Oregon, unlike the way Intel names its processors for the consumer market after lakes and scenic spots.
Compared to Google, Microsoft, AWS or IBM, which mainly provide quantum computing resources through cloud platform services, Intel is clearly more inclined to promote the development of quantum computing performance through processor design.
Although quantum computing currently suffers from the high instability and error-proneness of qubits, its actual application remains relatively low, even though it can handle significantly larger computational workloads than existing methods. However, Intel anticipates successfully developing processors capable of handling thousands of qubits and plans to fully debug them by 2027, effectively achieving its goal of widespread quantum computing adoption.
In addition, Intel revealed that it has begun building the next quantum computing processor, which is expected to be announced in 2024, and plans to establish a huge quantum computing ecosystem with global research institutions.
