Quantum computing could be ready to take on supercomputers as early as 2022
IBM is betting big on quantum computing development once again. This time, IBM director of research, Norishige Morimoto, has pledged to deliver commercial quantum computers, capable of outperforming today’s supercomputers in specific tasks, during the next three to five years.
Morimoto, speaking during the IBM think Summit in Taipei (via DigiTimes), believes that truly commercial quantum machines will only become available once that inflection point for quantum computing has been hit. That’s going to be the moment when a quantum computer - powered by entangled qubits that can exist in a superpositional state between 1 and 0 - is able to deliver power unparalleled by classical computers, even compared with the world’s greatest binary supercomputers.
IBM is not alone in this venture, either. Microsoft, Intel, and Google are just some of the more notable tech firms investing heavily in the tech they believe will one day supplant classical computing. Google is similarly confident that its quantum solution will become commercially viable sooner rather than later, with short term success sometime in the next three years.
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