An Australian tech manufacturer today announced it has created the world’s first integrated circuit manufactured at the atomic scale, with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) laying claim to this historic milestone.
Described as a “major breakthrough” by SQC’s founder Michelle Simmons who holds an Order of Australia, the announcement comes two years ahead of schedule and a decade after the company’s team fabricated the world’s first single atom transistor.
“Today’s classical computers struggle to simulate even relatively small molecules due to the large number of possible interactions between atoms,” explains Simmons.
