Guest Post: The Role of Silicon Photonics in Delivering Usable Quantum Computing
THE SO WHAT
Silicon photonics as a scaling path for quantum hardware ties quantum’s future to existing semiconductor manufacturing know-how. If you’re betting on quantum, vendor diligence should now include their photonics and fab story, not just qubit counts and coherence times.
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