TECHNOLOGY

Quantum leap for Silex

HIGH-tech company Silex Systems has signed a product offtake agreement with the privately funded Silicon Quantum Computing company for high-purity zero-spin silicon (ZS-Si), which Silex will produce through laser isotope separation technology.

Quantum computers will be thousands of times more powerful than the most advanced computer available today

Quantum computers will be thousands of times more powerful than the most advanced computer available today

Through the ZS-Si research and development project Silex will develop a process for the commercial production of ZS-Si, an isotopically enriched silicon used to make next-generation processor chips for...

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