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BootinUp

(51,643 posts) Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:25 AM Sep 2025

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2

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A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 (Original Post) BootinUp Sep 2025 OP

Beautifully complicated. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #1

Would make a cool bong JoseBalow Sep 2025 #2

shhh SonOfNebanaube Sep 2025 #3

I believe that's just the cryo cooling plumbing Zorro Sep 2025 #4

The wafers are inside the enclosures at BootinUp Sep 2025 #5

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

1. Beautifully complicated. . . . . nt

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:26 AM

Sep 2025

JoseBalow

(9,742 posts)

2. Would make a cool bong

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:00 AM

Sep 2025

SonOfNebanaube

(146 posts)

3. shhh

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:06 AM

Sep 2025

You're spilling the beans on our engineering ability.

Zorro

(18,884 posts)

4. I believe that's just the cryo cooling plumbing

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:44 PM

Sep 2025

QBitting takes place on a wafer somewhere down below.

BootinUp

(51,643 posts)

5. The wafers are inside the enclosures at

Reply to Zorro (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 03:29 PM

Sep 2025

The bottom of the towers I think.

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