On the first day of April, something major happened in the computer industry.
The Hua Academy of Sciences quantum computer research team suddenly announced with great fanfare that it had made major progress in quantum computing research! The team leader claimed that they had developed a quantum computer processor based on Carbon-Based Semiconductor technology. Compared with other existing achievements in quantum computing, this processor would be unprecedented and groundbreaking.
According to informed sources, the processor primarily utilized certain properties of the Majorana Fermion, and its currently demonstrated performance had already reached 90 qubits.
When the news first broke, many research grunts working in integrated circuit design and information technology had only just returned to work after the weekend, their sleepy eyes still bleary.
When they saw the news through various channels, many instinctively checked the calendar. Only after confirming that it was not April 4 did astonishment appear on their faces.
A 90-qubit quantum computer!
What the hell, was this thing about to reach the heavens?
After learning about it, nearly everyone involved in related fields—even those only marginally connected—began frantically searching databases for relevant research results.
Yet, to many people's disappointment, aside from that news report, they could not find a single paper on this "90 qubits."
Forget papers.
Even the research team itself seemed to have sprung out of a rock. Many people had never even heard of them before. Aside from the academic leader, who had some credentials and had published several papers in quantum computing, the others would have struggled to produce even a respectable first-author paper in a top-tier journal.
It felt like a level-five "big brother" in the beginner village had led a group of level-three newbies to form a party, only to take down a level-ten elite BOSS.
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