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IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
(www.nature.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The attached picture says 133 qubits, so whatever that chip is (edit: Heron) it's not this thing.
IBM's post (that the article links) says:
So, it sounds like this is actually another fridge sized system.
without a room temperature super conductor it will always be mostly cooling
These qubits oscillate at microwave frequencies where the quantum information is stored. This means they need to be kept at a temperature where the microwave frequencies are completely devoid of any thermal noise. For microwave frequencies, this temperature is just a few millikelvins above absolute zero. Unfortunately, the temperature is required due to the fundamental nature of thermal noise due to temperature. Making the qubits out of room temperature superconductor would not solve the problem of the need to cool them down - unless they can be operated at higher frequency. There are quantum computers made using light/optical photons which do operate at room temperature because optical photons are at much higher frequency which has no thermal noise even at room temperature.
So, in conclusion, everytime you hear about superconducting qubit, they are always in a giant dilution refrigerator which gets bigger for more qubits as more connections from room temperature to qubits are needed.
It looks more like Darth Vader's water heater.