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CAS Cold Atom Technology, a Wuhan-based firm affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), unveiled what it claims is the world's first dual-core quantum computer, according to a report from state-owned publication Science and Technology Daily . The system, called Hanyuan-2, pairs two independent neutral atom arrays inside a single cabinet-sized machine, totaling 200 qubits built from 100 rubidium-85 and 100 rubidium-87 atoms.

The company said the twin cores can either run in parallel to split workloads or operate in a "one main and one auxiliary" configuration, where the second array handles real-time error correction while the first executes computations.…