At a technology hearing on Capitol Hill earlier this year, US senator Ted Cruz held up a golden computer chip he said was worth $1bn and would unlock a new era of quantum computing.
“This breakthrough is led by an American company,” he proclaimed, but thousands of miles away in Sydney his tech nationalism did not go unnoticed.
“It left a weird feeling,” said physicist David Reilly, who until last year led the University of Sydney’s quantum computing partnership with Microsoft to develop key elements of the Majorana 1 processor.
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