None of that nuclear-magnetic-resonance garbage, ha
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Microsoft says it has made progress in its effort to develop CMOS-based chips for quantum computing.
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology – an integrated circuit manufacturing process – is used to make a variety of computer components. And many of the scientists developing quantum computers would prefer to use this familiar approach to build machines that realize quantum bits, or qubits, instead of relying on more exotic mechanisms that have been explored like liquid-state nuclear-magnetic-resonance or ion traps.
Qubits are to quantum computers what binary bits are to classical computers, the state measured for computation. Qubits represent the state of a quantum system, which can be determined by measuring subatomic particles like the spin of electrons or the polarization of photons.