Silicon quantum processor with robust long-distance qubit couplings

The use of the phosphorus donor is interesting. I haven't read it through totally, but it reminded me of this hypothesis: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-spin-on-the-quantum-bra...

The other thing that I didn't see is a mention of the temperature, although I presume it may be around room temperature based of previous work with donor-spin qubits.

Also note that this isn't an experimental demonstration, this is a theoretical treatment with simulations. Nothing wrong with that, but there was a lot of brouhaha over non-Abelian anyons for topological quantum computing a bit back, but those weren't experimentally demonstrated to even exist. Now, to be fair, these are concrete simulations and are definitely different from the non-Abelian anyon situation because they don't require the existence of particles which haven't been experimentally demonstrated, and IIRC spin-donor qubits have been demonstrated before experimentally, but do know that there can be unexpected pitfalls. For example, in theory QAHE state materials should exhibit no backscatter theoretically, but experimental measurements instead suggest that there is a small amount of backscatter, although the mechanism remains unknown.

Nonetheless, hopefully exotic physics in conventional materials can push forward EE devices in the future!

This paper has made me significantly increase my estimate of the urgency of moving to post-quantum crypto algorithms. Which really pisses me off because I spent a long time learning about elliptic curves, and soon all that knowledge will be useless. Damn those physicists.

Could I Get the " Explain it like I am 5 TL;DR of this "

It wasn't clear to me from the abstract, does this allow a complete CPU to be constructed using industry standard tools, or are there still some special or non-scalable steps required?

Will the 4004-Q be ready in time for the 2019 holiday shopping season?

Sweet! In 18-24 months "quantum computing" will be the new hotness in tech. We've reached peak "Machine Learning" and "Autonomous Vehicles" are yesterday's news. Get in on the ground floor of the next wave of VC handouts! Hit Buck's and casually mention within earshot of the nearest tables that you're working on a quantum block chain project that will revolutionize programatic ad delivery but you're forgoing the hassle and red tape of traditional venture funding and planning your ICO in a couple of weeks - and then place bets on which will hit your table first, a term sheet or the lunch bill.