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Argonne National Laboratory and Intel have partnered to deploy a 12-qubit silicon quantum dot processor, marking a significant advancement in quantum computing. This processor, developed by Intel and operated at Argonne, demonstrates the feasibility of using standard semiconductor manufacturing methods for large-scale quantum computers.

The collaboration merges Intel's manufacturing expertise with Argonne's experience in open science, under the leadership of Q-NEXT, the Department of Energy's National Quantum Information Science Research Center. Initial results have been published in Nature Communications.

As quantum computing requires systems with hundreds or millions of qubits, Intel is working on larger quantum dot processors while Argonne studies qubit interactions. This partnership also includes efforts on the Aurora exascale supercomputer and a semiconductor testbed for algorithm testing at Q-NEXT.