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A UK quantum startup has secured £30 million ($36.3 million) in Series A funding to help advance its technology, which it claims uses trapped ions as qubits but does not need lasers to control them, making it scalable through existing silicon manufacturing processes. Oxford Ionics is based near Oxford, as the name implies, and …

  1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    Pity Sir Clive isn't around

    It could be a Quantum Leap in computing

    1. Lars
      Happy

      Re: Pity Sir Clive isn't around

      Luckily Hermann Hauser is still around. (born only 8 years later)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hauser

      1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

        Re: Pity Sir Clive isn't around

        But can he leap over a computer ?

  2. elsergiovolador Silver badge

    Awkward

    uses trapped ions as qubits but does not need lasers to control them, making it scalable through existing silicon manufacturing processes.

    It will be awkward if it turns out that ions are sentient and "trapping" them once again puts us in a bad spot.

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: Awkward

      If they complain we will neutralise them

  3. NeilPost

    ARM

    How come no mention of Herman Hauser and more impactfully ARM ?? .. just Acorn?

    Not like you don’t know… or did you skimp on the journo research bit ??

    https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/07/06/knighthood_for_arm_founder/

    He played a key role in not just it’s creation but the enabling job of spinning the technology out of Acorn into Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology.

    1. Vometia has insomnia. Again.

      Re: ARM

      Given their US make-over, they've probably decreed that the Americans invented it.

  4. C Berlin

    Don't mix him up with Kaspar Hauser.

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