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Intel Horse Ridge is a rather cool chip for quantum computers

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/10/2019 09:48 AM | source: | 21 comment(s)
Intel Horse Ridge is a rather cool chip for quantum computers

Built for liquid helium cooling, Horse Ridge is arguably the coolest chip Intel is currently developing. The chip is supposed to control a quantum computer whose qubits can handle unusually high temperatures.

Horse Ridge is the name of the new computer chip from Intel manufactured using the 22-nanometer process. Developed for an operating temperature of 4 Kelvin and to control quantum computer chips, Horse Ridge is an attempt to take a step into the future of computer engineering unlike the outdated Pentium.

Intel Labs today unveiled what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will speed up development of full-stack quantum computing systems. Horse Ridge will enable control of multiple quantum bits (qubits) and set a clear path toward scaling larger systems — a major milestone on the path to quantum practicality. Developed together with Intel’s research collaborators at QuTech, a partnership between TU Delft and TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), Horse Ridge is fabricated using Intel’s 22nm FinFET technology. In-house fabrication of these control chips at Intel will dramatically accelerate the company’s ability to design, test and optimize a commercially viable quantum computer.

“While there has been a lot of emphasis on the qubits themselves, the ability to control many qubits at the same time had been a challenge for the industry. Intel recognized that quantum controls were an essential piece of the puzzle we needed to solve in order to develop a large-scale commercial quantum system. That’s why we are investing in quantum error correction and controls. With Horse Ridge, Intel has developed a scalable control system that will allow us to significantly speed up testing and realize the potential of quantum computing.”
–Jim Clarke, Intel’s director of Quantum Hardware

Why It Matters: In the race to realize the power and potential of quantum computers, researchers have focused extensively on qubit fabrication, building test chips that demonstrate the exponential power of a small number of qubits operating in superposition. However, in early quantum hardware developments — including design, testing and characterization of Intel’s silicon spin qubit and superconducting qubit systems — Intel identified a major bottleneck toward realizing commercial-scale quantum computing: interconnects and control electronics.

With Horse Ridge, Intel introduces an elegant solution that will enable the company to control multiple qubits and set a clear path toward scaling future systems to larger qubit counts — a major milestone on the path to quantum practicality.

What Quantum Practicality is: Quantum computers promise the potential to tackle problems that conventional computers can’t handle by leveraging a phenomena of quantum physics that allows qubits to exist in multiple states simultaneously. As a result, qubits can conduct a large number of calculations at the same time — dramatically speeding up complex problem-solving.

The quantum research community is still at mile one of a marathon toward demonstrating quantum practicality, a benchmark against which the quantum research community can determine whether a quantum system can deliver game-changing performance to solve real-world problems. Intel´s investment in quantum computing covers the full hardware and software stack in pursuit of the development and commercialization of a practical, commercially viable quantum system.

Why Horse Ridge is Important: To date, researchers have been focused on building small-scale quantum systems to demonstrate the potential of quantum devices. In these efforts, researchers have relied on existing electronic tools and high-performance computing rack-scale instruments to connect the quantum system inside the cryogenic refrigerator to the traditional computational devices regulating qubit performance and programming the system.

These devices are often custom-designed to control individual qubits, requiring hundreds of connective wires into and out of the refrigerator in order to control the quantum processor. This extensive control cabling for each qubit will hinder the ability to scale the quantum system to the hundreds or thousands of qubits required to demonstrate quantum practicality, not to mention the millions of qubits required for a commercially viable quantum solution.

With Horse Ridge, Intel radically simplifies the control electronics required to operate a quantum system. Replacing these bulky instruments with a highly-integrated system-on-chip (SoC) will simplify system design and allow for sophisticated signal processing techniques to accelerate set-up time, improve qubit performance and enable the system to efficiently scale to larger qubit counts.

More About Horse Ridge: Horse Ridge is a highly integrated, mixed-signal SoC that brings the qubit controls into the quantum refrigerator — as close as possible to the qubits themselves. It effectively reduces the complexity of quantum control engineering from hundreds of cables running into and out of a refrigerator to a single, unified package operating near the quantum device.

 

 

Designed to act as a radio frequency (RF) processor to control the qubits operating in the refrigerator, Horse Ridge is programmed with instructions that correspond to basic qubit operations. It translates those instructions into electromagnetic microwave pulses that can manipulate the state of the qubits.

Named for one of the coldest regions in Oregon, the Horse Ridge control chip was designed to operate at cryogenic temperatures — approximately 4 Kelvin. To put this in context, 4 Kelvin is only warmer than absolute zero — a temperature so cold that atoms nearly stop moving.

This feat is particularly exciting as Intel progresses its research into silicon spin qubits, which have the potential to operate at slightly higher temperatures than current quantum systems require.

Today, a quantum computer operates at in the millikelvin range — just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. But silicon spin qubits have properties that could allow them to operate at 1 Kelvin or higher temperatures, which would dramatically reduce the challenges of refrigerating the quantum system.

As research progresses, Intel aims to have cryogenic controls and silicon spin qubits operate at the same temperature level. This will enable the company to leverage its expertise in advanced packaging and interconnect technologies to create a solution with the qubits and controls in one streamlined package.



Intel Horse Ridge is a rather cool chip for quantum computers




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fantaskarsef
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#5739425 Posted on: 12/10/2019 10:59 AM
Horse Ridge is the name of the new computer chip from Intel manufactured using the 22-nanometer process.


22nm? So far this doesn't really differ from what they seem to release lately... :D
Yeah... sorry for the evil pun. But it also makes sense, since they ramp up 22nm fabs to produce linked one and this one for better fab utilization.

On a more serious note, I'm certainly surprised that they don't use 14nm+++ for such high paying customers as quantum computing manufacturers / departments. Is there a technical reason for that, does anybody know?

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#5739449 Posted on: 12/10/2019 12:38 PM
I would be concerned with intel and its security problems. They cant handle the security of their chips.

If anyone creates a skynet, it will be thru intels security flaw in one of their chips.

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#5739450 Posted on: 12/10/2019 12:39 PM
Is there a technical reason for that, does anybody know?


Just means the science group with Intel personnel in it has access to some multi-billion dollar machine to make a couple of wafers of an experimental chip that's probably running at below 0.1W, clocking in the MHz range...and is a 22nm device. The crux of the news is they managed to make a chip that can be used more or less inside a near absolute zero point cooling device, as you don't want any heat dissipation in there. Even thinking about heat affects a device like that. Hence the pun: Intel's coolest chip :D

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#5739468 Posted on: 12/10/2019 01:38 PM
Horse Ridge? The naming is odd.

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#5739499 Posted on: 12/10/2019 02:40 PM
"Ridge" is used by AMD.. Bristol Ridge... Pinnacle Ridge... Raven Ridge... Summit Ridge...

Also it's not 1 April...

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