Qubits need to be stored at temperatures that are 40 times colder than deep space in order to function, with current systems relying on cables connected to each individual qubit stored a these extreme temperatures. This is one of the reasons Microsoft has chosen to focus on the long game. IT See all IT. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including the Boston Business Journal , the Boston Phoenix , Megapixel. It becomes a matter of delicacy to manipulate the qubits, which call for a controlling chip to reduce the error margins in information handling. Take the morning off because Outlook has already We're down to Microsoft again by first week of February. David Reilly, who have developed a cryogenic quantum control platform that uses specialized CMOS circuits to take digital inputs and generate many parallel qubit control signals—allowing scaled-up support for thousands of qubits—a leap ahead from previous technology. The Microsoft researchers have also built a cryogenic compute core that operates in much warmer temperatures and computes the classical calculations that are essential for determining the instructions for Gooseberry quantum chip.