New York-based IBM has released its roadmap for quantum computing hardware. Among other goals, the company plans to have a 1,000-qubit machine ready by 2023.
Google recently showed promising developments in the field of quantum computing. Honeywell, another US company, recently claimed to have "the world's most powerful quantum computer."
IBM has would have said he was on the verge of building a quantum processor with around 10 to 50 logical qubits by 2023. IBM's current quantum processors peak at 65 qubits. According to the roadmap, it plans to introduce a 127 qubit chip next year, a 433 qubit chip in 2022, eventually hitting the 1,000 qubit target.
The company is also building a new dilution refrigerator to store larger chips. In addition, IBM is working on ways to connect multiple units to achieve functionality close to current multi-core processing.
About Qubits and quantum computing
Ordinary computers process in bits and quantum computers process in qubits. While bits are defined as "0s" and "1s", qubits can be either or both at the same time. Simply put, the superior flexibility of qubits is what gives quantum computers their blazing speed.
The computational supremacy of quantum computing is likely to be useful for many purposes. Applications such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and cryptography are likely to benefit the most. This is so because these applications require large amounts of data processing at lightning-fast speeds to deliver accurate results.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Dario Gill, vice president of AI at IBM, said: "The future will be one where billions of quantum circuits will be executed every day on quantum hardware behind the scenes using these cloud services embedded in software applications. "
He also said that the industry is at a complex stage where individual players cannot do things on their own. This is the opportunity for them to work in specialized fields.
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