Scientists come up with quantum chip - Based on traditional architecture

Scientists come up with quantum chip - Based on traditional architecture | TechEye: "Boffins at Santa Barbara University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a quantum chip which uses traditional chip architecture.

Von Neumann architecture contains a chip and memory, with information travelling between them.

So far quantum computing has only worked on architecture that predates von Neumann.

According to Science magazine, which we get for the Spot the Quark competition, the design involves a quantum integrated circuit with two quantum bits (qubits), a quantum communication bus, two bits of quantum memory, and a resetting register comprising a simple quantum computer.

It takes a few billionsths of a second to add up all the numbers, which is about the same as a normal PC. However the quantum computer can perform a large number of calculations at the same time."