Origin Quantum Announces Wuyuan, China’s First Practical 24-qubit Quantum Computer

Chinese company Origin Quantum announced that it has developed China’s first practical 24-qubit quantum computer using superconducting chip technology, named Wuyuan. The computer uses an unspecified number of quantum processing units (QPUs), but comes with a custom operating system, and a cloud-computing platform, allowing Chinese businesses to hire the computer as they would any HPC cloud-computing instance. Origin Quantum said that with the production of Wuyuan, the company is already developing an even more powerful quantum computer, named Wukong. Origin Quantum is one of the many curiously new Chinese high-technology startups that have sprung up and don’t feature on Western tech sanctions lists, to which Western companies are forbidden to sale certain high-tech machinery and chips to.

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