quantum computing

At the American Physical Society meeting in Boston this year, Intel is highlighting several of the advances they've made in the field of quantum computing. Between Monday and Thursday this week, Intel will hold several talks on things ranging to 49-qubit processors, the testing of qubits on...

This morning at CES 2019, IBM unveiled the Q System One, which it claims to be "the world's first integrated universal approximate quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use." Apparently, previous quantum computers have all been confined to research labs because they're...

Digitimes reports that Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology is "aggressively" promoting the development of quantum computers, and claims that Taiwan Semiconductor is the "only industrial player in the projects." IBM's Q cloud quantum computing platform is reportedly involved in the...

Researchers at the University of Bristol took a big step towards building light-based quantum computers. Dr. Imad Faruque said "We demonstrated for the first time that nearly perfect single-photons can be generated from two parallel sources on the same silicon chip." The researchers claim they...

D-Wave just launched a free cloud quantum computing service called "Leap". Anyone can register an account for free on the project's site, which gives them 1 minute of computation time on a D-Wave 2000Q every month. D-Wave also released an SDK called "Ocean" to help users quickly set up quantum...

IEEE Spectrum says that Ford Motor Company signed a contract with NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to use their D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer for research. More specifically, Ford is seeking a generalization of the "traveling salesman problem," which involves finding the most...

Quantum computing science and theory is nothing new. The basics are bit like Schrodinger's cat. Quantum particles can exist in more than one state at one time and this is the basis of quantum computing, much different than our current off/on or 0/1 approach. Intel is touting a new Spin Qubit...

Intel might have its hands full dealing with meltdown/spectre, but that doesn't mean they are giving up on other avenues of computing. As a matter of fact Intel hasn't given up on using silicon chips in quantum computers like conventional wisdom might dictate. The key problem with using...

In this opinion piece over at InformationWeek, the author proposes that quantum computing poses both great promise and potential threats. Without a doubt the promises of quantum computing are immense. Things that conventional computers do slowly the quantum computer can do many times faster...

Quantum Computers have cryptographers worried that our concepts of modern cryptography will soon become obsolete. We've mentioned this before. Quantum computers like the D Wave X2 utilize bits that exist in superposition. In other words, bits of 1 or 0 are not just 1 or 0. They can also be 1 AND...

Quantum computing is the digital manifestation of Schrodinger's Cat. In standard computing, bits are set as either highs or lows (1's or 0's). This is how virtually all computer systems operate. In quantum computing, bits are set as both high and low. My face melts when I think about that from a...