Intel Horse Ridge

2019: Announcement

On December 9, 2019 Intel announced the Horse Ridge processor which should make quantum computers more compact and bring closer them to mass use. The company developed this single-crystal system by forces of own laboratory Ronler Acres with assistance of two Dutch research institutes.

Modern quantum computers need to be stored in the cool, hermetically closed environment for work. This isolated environment usually is provided in the form of the cryogenic refrigerator which works at temperatures, near absolute to zero. The quantum equipment is connected with the outside world by means of one hundred cables, and this quantity will only grow in process of performance improvement of systems.

Intel announced the Horse Ridge processor which should make quantum computers more compact and bring closer them to mass use

According to in Intel, the Ronler Acres chip of the size of a saucer for a cup it is capable to carry out the same tasks with which the traditional management system for quantum computers copes with hundreds of cables.

Horse Ridge is placed directly in the cryogenic refrigerator in which the quantum equipment works, and in the wireless way manages qubits using electromagnetic microwave pulses which will transform computer commands to instructions, clear for the quantum processor.

It is noted that the Horse Ridge controller is located most close to the quantum processor, though not absolutely near it. Working temperature of the controller, as stated above, is 4 Calvin. Though it it is impossible to locate near the cryogenic quantum processor cooled up to lower temperature, Intel continues work on scalable pair from the controller and the quantum processor.

By December, 2019 Intel uses the 49-kubitny quantum computer, and its new cryoprocessor can give it advantage in what the company calls quantum practicality.^[1]

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