Ep 9: Can an Ordinary Chip Factory Build a Quantum Computer?

Diraq and imec show eight coherent silicon spin qubits made on a standard 300mm chip foundry line — a real manufacturing milestone with an aggressive roadmap attached. Plus: Nord Quantique's hundredfold error-rate improvement, the EU's new neutral-atom pilot line, a trapped-ion scaling framework, an aerospace quantum pact, and why quantum stocks tanked for reasons that have nothing to do with quantum.Linked sources: Imec and Diraq Demonstrate Eight-Qubit Silicon Spin Array on 300mm CMOS Foundry Line — The Quantum Insider / Nature CommunicationsNord Quantique Cuts SPAM Errors Below 0.1% in Grid-State Qubit — Quantum Zeitgeist / arXivIQM Hardware Study: Zero-Noise Extrapolation Can Fake a 21% Improvement — Quantum ZeitgeistNew Framework Aims to Scale Trapped-Ion Entangling Gates to 1,000 Ions — Quantum Zeitgeist / arXivQuantum Stocks Whipsaw as Oil Shock Hits Speculative Names — 24/7 Wall St.Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane, and Edinburgh Sign Industrial Design Pact — The Quantum InsiderQ-PLANET Launches: €50M EU Pilot Line to Industrialize Neutral-Atom Chips — Quantum Zeitgeist / Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.