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Chinese Team Achieves Quantum Computing Milestone, Challenges Google

12/26/2025

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Chinese researchers led by Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China reached the fault-tolerant threshold with the Zuchongzhi 3.2 superconducting quantum computer, the first team outside the United States to achieve this milestone.
The milestone enables more robust error correction.
Their microwave-based control could offer a more efficient path to large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers than Google's.
Physicist Joseph Emerson cautioned that practical applications remain distant.

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Story summary

Chinese researchers led by Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China reached the fault-tolerant threshold with the Zuchongzhi 3.2 superconducting quantum computer, the first team outside the United States to achieve this milestone.
The milestone enables more robust error correction.
Their microwave-based control could offer a more efficient path to large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers than Google's.
Physicist Joseph Emerson cautioned that practical applications remain distant.