As a part of Bai's job, she needs to neatly solder the heating wire of a blanket to its coupler, a key process for making the blanket heat up when it's plugged in.

The Wukong chip, he said, has 198 qubits, including 72 working qubits and 126 coupler qubits.

Jia Zhilong, deputy director of the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center's Quantum Computing Chip Provincial Key Laboratory, said the Wukong chip has 198 qubits, comprising 72 computational qubits and 126 coupler qubits.