alt Hacker NewsThe really important thing is that logical qbit error decreases exponentially with error correction amount. As such, for the ~1000 qbit regime needed for factoring, the amount of error correction ends up being essentially a constant factor (~1000x physical to logical). As long as you can build enough "decent" quality physical qbits and connect them, you can get near perfect logical qbits.
Having demonstrated error correction, some incremental improvements can now be made to make it more repeatable and with better characteristics.
The hard problem then remains how to connect those qubits at scale. Using a coaxial cable for each qubit is impractical; some form of multiplexing is needed. This, in turn, causes qubits to decohere while waiting for their control signal.