Rigetti announces 80 qubit processor, experiments with “qutrits”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/rigetti-announces-80-qubit-processor-experiments-with-qutrits/

2.5x speedup. This is critical because qubits also tend to lose their state over time. The more operations you can squeeze into a given amount of time, the more likely you are to get a complex set of manipulations done before the processor loses its state... 80-qubit Aspen-M may represent a more significant advance, since Rigetti describes it as "assembled from two 40-qubit chips"