![Honeywell's quantum computer uses ytterbium atoms trapped in this chamber, about the size of a football. Lasers manipulate the atoms to direct quantum computing calculations.](https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/A9lGyI9O2r30qpsgWaiQBgra2uE=/1092x0/2020/03/03/3bb17929-0669-48c4-9346-2e8964e6a13e/honeywell-quantum-solutions-chamber.jpg)
Honeywell’s quantum computer uses ytterbium atoms trapped in this chamber, about the size of a football. Lasers manipulate the atoms to direct quantum computing calculations.
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If you’ve been paying attention to quantum computing, you’ll have seen familiar names — IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Amazon — trying to bring about this revolution. Now, a name from computing’s distant past wants a turn.
Honeywell, which once sold massive mainframes but withdrew from the business decades ago, said on Tuesday it expects to improve the performance of its quantum computers by a factor of 10 every year for each of the next five years — 100,000 times faster in 2025. That would blow past IBM, which has a more modest goal…
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