Jason Gorman on Nostr: A lot of hoopla about Google's new quantum computer chip. To put it into perspective, ...
A lot of hoopla about Google's new quantum computer chip. To put it into perspective, in 2019, largest quantum ICs had ~50 physical qubits. Google's new chip has 105. Experts estimate practical applications of quantum computing when scale reaches a million+, maybe in 60-70 years' time? (If ever)
(That is to say that the applications we're reading about in the Google press releases would require 1M+ physical qubits)
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