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Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Computing Chip
Intel is getting the jump on its quantum computing competitors by launching a new 17-qubit superconducting chip. Previously, quantum processors remained the preserve of computer labs. However, Intel shipped the new chip to Intel partner QuTech. The chip itself isn’t revolutionary, but it marks the first quantum processor shipment. QuTech…
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Microsoft Develops New Coding Language for Quantum Computers
Quantum computers creep ever closer, and Microsoft is already preparing itself. As a result, the Redmond company unveiled a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computers. While the new language does require an understanding of qubits, superpositions, and entanglement, it incorporates the familiar C# and Python. Microsoft revealed the…
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Google Expects Quantum Computer Breakthrough This Year
Quantum computing could become a reality by the end of 2017, thanks to Google’s latest advancements. Google is currently testing a 20-qubit processor, which is impressive enough. But the Alphabet company hopes to have a functioning 49-qubit processor the end of the year. What is Quantum Computing? A quantum computer…
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Microsoft and Rambus Develop Cryogenic DRAM
The balance between the efficiency and performance of a computer component is effectively the line between energy consumption and overheating. Computer users have had to become smarter about how their hardware is powered and cooled as Moore’s Law has become increasingly irrelevant. Integrated memory technologies – like CBRAM and ReRAM…
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Researchers Break Quantum Computing Logic Gate Record
A team of Oxford University researchers has broken a record vital to the creation of a quantum computer, which could harness the quantum-mechanical phenomena of entanglement and superposition in order to perform superfast computational operations without electronic transistors. The researchers, from the University of Oxford’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research…
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Billion Euro Quantum Technology Project Planned by European Commission
In a rather downplayed announcement, the European Commission revealed earlier this week that they would be launching a new quantum technology development project with a budget of €1 billion. The initiative would be tasked with the advancement of a number of quantum technologies from secure quantum communication to accurate clocks and even…
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Canada’s Prime Minister Shows Reporter He Knows Exactly What Quantum Computing Is
When you go to a press talk at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, you expect there to be some smart remarks about what people may or may not know. Be warned, if you try to do this to Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau he will show you…
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Diamonds Could Help Unlock Quantum Computing
The stumbling block when it comes to quantum computing – which aims to use the quantum-mechanical phenomena of entanglement and superposition in order to perform superfast computational operations without electronic transistors – is maintaining superposition (i.e. more than one physical state, simultaneously; think Schrödinger’s cat), but a team of researchers…
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Scientists Make Fredkin Gate in Quantum Computing Breakthrough
With every new finding, it seems like quantum computing is coming closer and closer to being a reality. The latest of these breakthroughs is the ability to construct a key building block of a larger quantum computer, the Fredkin Gate. The main difference between quantum computers and those we use…
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Quantum Computing Could Be A Step Closer Thanks To “Noise-Cancelling” Technology
Mention quantum computing to anyone involved with technology and their eyes will light up like its Christmas day. With the theoretical ability to complete thousands of complicated calculations in a fraction of the time that it takes the most advanced processor available on the market, quantum computing could see your…
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NASA and Google Reveal Working Quantum Computer
Two years ago, NASA and Google decided to get together and invest in a D-Wave 2X quantum computer as part of an experiment to gauge the performance increase of solving a “quantum annealing” problem on a quantum computer over a conventional computer. It only comes today, however, that Google were…
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NSA Reportedly In Development Of An Encryption-Cracking Quantum Computer
According to The Register, NSA in planning to build a quantum computer capable of analysing everything that is going on the Internet. And they have a big budget allocated for it too, around $80 million dedicated for the quantum computer development. The main goal described is something that the NSA…
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