Google’s Quantum Computing Hardware is Head-less

April 21, 2020 by Rusty Flint

Google's Quantum Computing Hardware is Head-less

John Martinis who was the head of Google’s Hardware from 2014 until recently oversaw the company make headlines with its quantum supremacy breakthrough and notable development of Quantum chips such as Sycamore.

According to Wired Magazine Martinis felt sidelined after being pushed into an advisory role at the giant tech firm. Martinis will retain his position as professor at UC Santa Barbara. What is next for Martinis we do not know, but I’m sure many companies will be very interested in acquiring his know-how and likely contacts too. Perhaps we’ll see another Quantum Computing start-up emerge, along the lines of Rigetti. Clearly he would be very invest-able.

Google made our Quantum Company of day expose a little while back where you can uncover more about what the company gets up to in its quantum efforts.

Rusty Flint

Rusty is a science nerd. He's been into science all his life, but spent his formative years doing less academic things. Now he turns his attention to write about his passion, the quantum realm. He loves all things Physics especially. Rusty likes the more esoteric side of Quantum Computing and the Quantum world. Everything from Quantum Entanglement to Quantum Physics. Rusty thinks that we are in the 1950s quantum equivalent of the classical computing world. While other quantum journalists focus on IBM's latest chip or which startup just raised $50 million, Rusty's over here writing 3,000-word deep dives on whether quantum entanglement might explain why you sometimes think about someone right before they text you. (Spoiler: it doesn't, but the exploration is fascinating.