For the first time, scientists have built a tiny photonic quantum system into a traditional electronic chip. This photonic-electronic integration enables the single chip to reliably produce a stream of photon pairs — basic units that encode quantum information — required for light-based quantum communication, sensing and processing.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    As quantum photonic systems grow in scale and complexity, these integrated quantum chips could become the building blocks for technologies ranging from secure communication networks to advanced sensing and, eventually, quantum computing infrastructure.

    So this is more of a proof of a concept tech building block. From the article, it seems that this is mainly relevant for quantum computing and not regular computing.