Quantum brief week 6, 2026
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Episode notes
- First Fault-Tolerant Lattice Surgery: Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute demonstrated the first fault-tolerant lattice surgery on a superconducting chip, successfully manipulating logical qubits while suppressing errors in real-time.
- Sovereign Industrialization Mandates: The U.S. and EU initiated massive industrialization efforts, including a White House executive order prioritizing a "discovery-class" machine and the €50 million SUPREME consortium aimed at scaling superconducting manufacturing.
- Industrial-Scale Silicon Fabrication: Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) achieved a manufacturing throughput of 250,000 qubit registers in a single shift, signaling a pivot toward using existing se ...
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