IQM Displays Quantum Computer “Chandelier” in Helsinki as Chips Run Colder Than Outer Space
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Updated · Bloomberg · Aug 26
IQM Displays Quantum Computer “Chandelier” in Helsinki as Chips Run Colder Than Outer Space
1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Aug 26
Summary
IQM Quantum Computers keeps a quantum-computer “chandelier” on display at a warehouse outside Helsinki, using the gold-plated wiring tower to show visiting executives and politicians the most visible part of the machine.
The component is shown switched off because the photogenic wiring sits inside a stainless-steel vacuum chamber during operation, where the system cools the processor to colder than outer space.
Those braided wires and copper layers shield the fragile circuits at the bottom from heat and outside disturbance so the computer can perform calculations.
IQM CEO Jan Goetz said the display is a useful side effect, while the actual computing happens in artificial-atom processors so thin they are difficult to photograph.