The rapid pace of development has continued since January. In February, for instance, a research team from PsiQuantum reported in Nature a manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing2<\/a>. That month also saw Microsoft announce in a press release that it had created topological qubits3<\/a>; the announcement was however greeted with a degree of scepticism from the community4<\/a>. Then in March, a team led by researchers from D-Wave Quantum reported in Science that superconducting quantum annealing processors could outperform state-of-the-art classical simulators5<\/a>. And last month, researchers from academic institutes and companies in Australia and Japan reported in Nature that a complementary metal\u2013oxide\u2013semiconductor (CMOS) chip operating at millikelvin temperatures could be used to control silicon metal\u2013oxide\u2013semiconductor (MOS)-type electron spin qubits6<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rapid advance of the technology this year has also been seen in the pages of Nature Electronics. Our May issue, for instance, featured work from Jinchen Wang and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University on building wireless terahertz cryogenic interconnects for use in quantum computing7<\/a>. In this issue, Wolfgang Pfaff and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report<\/a> the development of elementary networks of interchangeable superconducting qubit devices; an approach that provides a modular architecture that could be used to scale quantum processors.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in this issue, Danielius Kramnik and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, Boston University and Northwestern University report<\/a> an electronic\u2013photonic quantum system-on-a-chip that can provide scalable control of microring resonator quantum photon-pair sources. The system, which is fabricated in a 45 nm CMOS microelectronics foundry, could be of use in the scaling for silicon photonic quantum computers. (See also the accompanying News & Views article<\/a> on the work from Yun Zheng, Xinyu Jia and Jianwei Wang of Peking University.)<\/p>\n Our broader exploration of quantum computing \u2014 which began in January with a consideration of the past8<\/a>, present9<\/a> and future10<\/a> of the field \u2014 also continues in this issue. The quantum bits (qubits) that form the basis of quantum computers can be built from a variety of different physical systems, with superconducting circuits a leading platform. But creating a useful quantum computer is likely to require systems with millions of such superconducting qubits. In a Comment article<\/a> in this issue, Anthony Megrant and Yu Chen discuss the challenges of scaling superconducting quantum computers.<\/p>\n The researchers \u2014 who are based at Google Quantum AI \u2014 note that building a fault-tolerant quantum computer is \u201ccomparable to constructing a mega-science facility such as CERN or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)\u201d. 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