Lt. Gov. Kimberly Driscoll looks at an oscilloscope on Tuesday while Springfield Technical Community College President John B. Cook shows her around space that Springfield boosters want to transform into a supply chain base for the burgeoning quantum computing industry. The warehouse was once Digital Equipment Corp. but originally was built to produce the M1 Garand Rifle. (Jim Kinney/ The Republican)The Republican
SPRINGFIELD — Quantum computing exists on the frontiers of physics, exploiting how matter and light behave at the subatomic level, tackling problems no one thought unsolvable and doing it faster than imagined.
“But people don’t realize it’s still a physical thing,” said Nathan Gemelke, co-founder and chief technology strategist of QuEra Computing. “It’s a piece of metal with screws. People have to build it.”
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