THIS SUMMER: SaxonQ, a German start-up, began taking orders for quantum computers built on diamond chips. They run at room temperature and plug into a normal wall socket. The video explains how a missing atom and a nitrogen atom become a qubit, and why lining them up stayed so hard for thirty years. In September, three of its diamond qubits found the right answer in a classic quantum search 77% of the time.
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