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PsiQuantum's goal since its inception has been to build a quantum computer with one million qubits.
Ashlee Vance believes that if PsiQuantum successfully builds its planned million-qubit machine, it will be far ahead of what any competitor is trying to build.
The technical premise behind PsiQuantum's strategy is that one million physical qubits are required for a quantum computer to perform useful work.
In quantum computing, error correction techniques reduce one million physical qubits to approximately one thousand useful logical qubits.
PsiQuantum's sole corporate mission is to build a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Ashlee Vance's experience covering Silicon Valley suggests that the most significant hardware companies typically take 10 to 12 years to build.
By 2018, SpaceX was launching its Falcon 9 rocket more frequently than all of its competitors combined.