Researchers have for the first time turned germanium—a widely used semiconductor—into a superconducting material by embedding gallium atoms in its crystal structure. This breakthrough could usher in a new era of quantum devices and ultra-efficient electronics.
It seems the breakthrough is that you could use familiar semiconductor manufacturing processes. However the temperature is still going to be a major issue. I don't want a computer that requires liquid helium cooling.
> I don't want a computer that requires liquid helium cooling.
True, but I /can/ see someone, such as Sandia National Labs, very much willing to install a liquid helium cooled computer if it provides a significant performance increase above their existing supercomputer installations.
Probably because they don’t behave well for normal lithography techniques? The high temp superconductors I know of are weird meta materials, and good luck getting them to exist in chip form at all.
