I read a news announcement on, I believe, IEEE, that Intel had gotten a manufacturing process down for a 17-qubit chip and had shipped it to their research lab

I read a news announcement on, I believe, IEEE, that Intel had gotten a manufacturing process down for a 17-qubit chip and had shipped it to their research lab in the Netherlands. There are certainly developments left and right. It will be interesting to see where quantum computing ends up... I could certainly see big possibilities for it in the communications sphere, guaranteeing link integrity and things like that.