Error correction quietly became the real quantum race
Qubit counts make the headlines, but the labs pulling ahead are the ones that can keep a logical qubit alive long enough to be useful.
Silicon & Hardware
Processors, packaging and the physics of faster computers.
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Review
Fanless workstations tested for six hours of sustained load
Silence is easy for ten minutes. We compiled continuously until the chassis decided what it really thought.
Open instruction sets reach the laptop that people will actually buy
After years of developer boards, the first open-ISA notebooks clear the bar where a normal buyer would not notice the difference.
Solid-state cells ship in small things first, and that is normal
The technology is real, the yields are not there for cars yet, and wearables are the honest first market.
Every new fab announcement hides the same packaging bottleneck
Governments are funding wafer capacity. Advanced packaging, which decides whether those wafers become products, is barely in the plans.
Review
Phone thermal cameras: useful tool, terrible marketing
The sensors are better than they were. The claims made about them are worse than they were.
