Google is Closer Than Ever to a Quantum Computer Breakthrough
Google’s 49 Qubit Chip
Google is maintaining its edge in the world of quantum computing. Its 20-qubit processor is currently undergoing tests, and the company appears to be on schedule to have its working 49-qubit chip ready by the end of 2017 as promised. Until it began trialing the 20-qubit chip, Google’s most powerful quantum chip was the 9-qubit effort from 2015.
Traditional computer bits are binary, only existing as either 0 or 1; they’re like light switches that are either on or off. Qubits, on the other hand, can be 0 or 1 like regular bits, but can also have quantum properties that allow them to exist in a superposition where they are both 0 and 1 simultaneously. This makes qubits potentially far more powerful, because instead of figuring something out by trying each option one by one, they can simultaneously compute more than one possibility.
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https://futurism.com/google-is-closer-than-ever-to-a-quantum-computer-breakthrough/
Is that an actual quantum computer or are they talking about the D-Wave, which is not a quantum computer. The D-Wave is using some quantum like features, only with magnetism iirc, but it is more useful for pattern matching, than what people fear/want quantum computing to do. Pattern matching is of great interest for search engines though.
The only problem is, it is in quantam-beta and has always been in quantam-beta before time and after time and soon will be quantam-deprecated.