Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped. Here our team of hardware engineers, quantum theorists, and software developers work side by side to tackle the many challenges of building better quantum computers. Virginia Valenzuela. Instead of baking this into hardware connections between qubits, Chapman says IonQ has developed a compiler that allows soft wiring of quantum circuits to enable devices to direct all energy toward one type of calculation. But if there are areas hungrier than ever for what quantum is best at — dense optimization problems at scale — the future cannot arrive fast enough. Tom Simonite. Read more. Chris Stokel-Walker. Simone Severini, the company's director of quantum computing and a professor at University College London, says Amazon is working on quantum hardware, but declined to provide details. In error-biasing, we use physical qubits that allow us to suppress bit-flips exponentially, while only increasing phase-flips linearly.