It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
* The first IBM Q systems available online to clients will have a 20 qubit processor, featuring improvements in superconducting qubit design, connectivity and packaging. Coherence times (the amount of time available to perform quantum computations) lead the field with an average value of 90 microseconds, and allow high-fidelity quantum operations.
* IBM has also successfully built and measured an operational prototype 50 qubit processor with similar performance metrics. This new processor expands upon the 20 qubit architecture and will be made available in the next generation IBM Q systems.
Clients will have online access to the computing power of the first IBM Q systems by the end of 2017, with a series of planned upgrades during 2018. IBM is focused on making available advanced, scalable universal quantum computing systems to clients to explore practical applications. The latest hardware advances are a result of three generations of development since IBM first launched a working quantum computer online for anyone to freely access in May 2016. Within 18 months, IBM has brought online a 5 and 16 qubit system for public access through the IBM Q experience and developed the world's most advanced public quantum computing ecosystem.
A quantum computer is a completely different kind of computer. Rather than operating with bits that can only equal zeroes and ones like a regular computer, its bits, or “qubits,” equal zero and one at the same time while calculations are taking place. A user initializes these qubits, which is sort of like setting the weights on a weighted die, and then lets them interact via the mathematical rules of quantum mechanics. There are certain tasks, like factoring numbers and modeling molecules, where a quantum computer would be much faster than a regular computer. Today, each of these qubits are made from specially-fabricated electronics that must be held at temperatures near absolute zero.
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: seasonal
Hehehe!
I think quantum computers will, at first, be something that only nations have (they are that finicky and expensive to operate) . You still need your "classical" computer to connect to the quantum computer (you will not have one on your desk anytime soon). So don't shoot just yet!
This announcement is kind of like an appetizer of what is coming. Next year will be the real race for supremacy.
originally posted by: Tucket
Sounds interesting...now what the hell does all that mean?
Pleading ignorance, If I were to buy a quantum computer, what would I do with it?.. predict the future?
Pleading ignorance, If I were to buy a quantum computer, what would I do with it?.. predict the future?
originally posted by: GraffikPleasure
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: seasonal
Hehehe!
I think quantum computers will, at first, be something that only nations have (they are that finicky and expensive to operate) . You still need your "classical" computer to connect to the quantum computer (you will not have one on your desk anytime soon). So don't shoot just yet!
This announcement is kind of like an appetizer of what is coming. Next year will be the real race for supremacy.
Please explain further why they keep making these better without releasing a lesser version to the public?
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: dfnj2015
I do not think it applies.
Like I've said, you are manipulating the data via quantum mechanics (or that is one method to visualize a quantum computer). I think that the quantum states will allow more plasticity into what is called AI which allows a broader spectrum to investigate (like a search algorithm starting broad then narrowing down to specific terms).
Both classical computing and quantum computing will be used in tandem. Where does the AI reside? Is more choices given back the "smart" part or is it the classical processor doing the heavy lifting?
IDK. But it will be fun to see what happens!