The first "quantum chip refrigerator" came out, and the development of quantum chips in China has taken another step
Quantum chips have become an important way for the development of the semiconductor industry and a major component of the layout of quantum computing technology. Chinese manufacturer Origin Quantum has built the first quantum wafer production line in China, laying the foundation for the mass production of quantum wafers in China.
Following the quantum wafer production line, China has made another breakthrough in the field of quantum technology and manufactured"Quantum wafer refrigerators"。What kind of technology is this?
Silicon-based wafers are no strangers to everyone, based on silicon, the first generation of semiconductor materials, to manufacture a variety of silicon-based electronic wafer products, which are widely used in smart phones, automobiles, TVs and other terminal fields, building today's information age.
However, the performance of silicon-based wafers is being limited by Moore's Law, and it remains to be seen whether silicon-based wafers will be able to achieve historic achievements in the next decade.
It can be known that there is more than one way to develop chips, and silicon-based chips may not be able to play the most important role in solving problems in specific fields, so some countries are carrying out research on quantum chips.
On the positive side, China has achieved mass production of quantum chips, forming a complete industrial support chain. Origin Quantum, located in Hefei, Anhui Province, is one of the leaders.
The company is the first quantum computing company in China and has established the first quantum wafer production line in China. On this production line, Origin Quantum has built a non-destructive probe station, a laser annealing instrument and a number of sets of industrial quantum wafer master machines, the first industrial quantum wafer software in China"Yuan Kun Yuan"It is also the responsibility of the origin quantum.
Judging from the achievements of quantum source, it has raised domestic quantum chips to the world-class level. Perhaps if foreign countries want to develop quantum chip technology, they should also find origin quantum cooperation.
Of course, these are secondary, the focus is not on whether the quantum chip can be put into use immediately after it is manufactured, and the preservation of the quantum chip is also a problem.
According to Jia Zhilong, deputy director of the Anhui Quantum Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, the superconducting materials in quantum wafers are very sensitive to the environment, and if the storage environment is unqualified, it is easy to have chemical reactions with oxygen molecules and water molecules in the air, affecting the performance of quantum wafers, and the coherence time of quantum wafers will also be shortened.
Therefore, the quantum wafer cannot be stored in a normal environment, and must be placed in a specific vacuum container to maintain a very low temperature, which is the first in China"Quantum wafer refrigerators"The reason for its birth.
Anhui Provincial Quantum Computing Engineering Technology Research Center"Quantum wafer refrigerators"It has been successfully developed, it has three storage cavities, equipped with an intelligent control system, so that the quantum wafer is kept in good conditions.
I think some people will wonder how important quantum chips really areIs it worth treating it so harshly?You know, quantum chips have become another industrial center of gravity in the information age, it is not only the core component of quantum computers, but also in order to solve specific problems, it can also play a more important performance.
Traditional computers are limited by CPU performance and reach a computing bottleneck, and if this bottleneck cannot be broken, then traditional computers can only be used in ordinary life. With the support of quantum chips, the development of key areas of quantum technology, such as quantum communication, quantum internet, and quantum encryption, will be possible.
Although quantum chips have not yet been applied to real life, the potential and application value of quantum chips should not be underestimated. The domestic manufacturer Origin Quantum has built the first quantum wafer production line in China, laying the foundation for future development.
The future of quantum chips cannot only look at the past and the present, and only by taking precautions can we grasp the initiative in international competition.
The quantum chip some time ago was like the semiconductor research and development of American companies a few decades ago, and no one could have imagined that semiconductors would change human science and technology and push human civilization to a new height.
The United States was the first to enter the game and tasted the first bite of crab. Now, in the field of quantum chips, the United States does not have a long history of development, no cases of successful mass production of quantum chips, and no tools to support the production line.
The United States does not have it, we have, from the industrial software designed to the industrial machine of the quantum chip, to the quantum chip refrigerator, more and more abundant resources are born from the industrial chain. The United States is pointing the finger at China's semiconductors, intending to interfere with the development of Chinese chips.
However, most of the actions of the United States are concentrated in the traditional field, and quantum chips, as an innovative development of technology, are almost undefended. We have all developed backup equipment ourselves, can't the United States restrain itself?Perhaps in the future, the United States will also need to rely on China's quantum chip manufacturing technology, and by that time, the initiative will be in our hands.
We hope that Chinese researchers will continue to work hard to bring China's quantum chip industry to the next level.