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Steffen said the company recently made progress with its Heron chips, going from around 150 to 250 microseconds.
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IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.
—George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Most notably, its coherence time of 72 microseconds enables more complex quantum operations before decoherence occurs.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
That gave us an indication that lighting spark during the first tens of microseconds is not driven by the electric field in the cloud.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.
—George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Most notably, its coherence time of 72 microseconds enables more complex quantum operations before decoherence occurs.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
That gave us an indication that lighting spark during the first tens of microseconds is not driven by the electric field in the cloud.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microsecond. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˌmī-krō-ˈsek-ənd 
-ənt
: one millionth of a second
Medical Definition
microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˈmī-krō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one millionth of a second
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