CEO Brian Krzanich today announced at CES that Intel has successfully designed, manufactured and delivered 49 quantum bit (qubit) superconducting test chips, just three months after Intel delivered 17 qubit chips in October last year .
Picture from Intel's official website
Tangle Lake, a 49-qubit chip, was considered by Intel to be a milestone because at this scale researchers have been allowed to evaluate improvements in error correction techniques and simulation computations.
Talk about the business of quantum computing "Said Mike Mayberry, Intel vice president and head of Intel Labs. Also need 5 to 7 years time.
7, 17, 49 quantum chips
In addition to the superconducting qubits, Intel has also created a 1-qubit spin chip based on a 300mm process. The size and unit area of a self-selected qubit is more impressive than a superconducting qubit, and it acts like a single-electron transistor.
Earlier, IBM announced that it had got a 50-qubit computer, and this time a show at CES.
PS: Many people may not understand the qubits, quantum confusion for the computer.
Traditional computers are all binary, that is, all states of information can only be recorded with '0' and '1', and only one of two can be done at each step - two operations.
2 quantum bits of the quantum computer, each step can be 2 power of 2 - that is, 4 times the operation, So Intel's chip reached 49% of 2 in 2 steps, or 562trillion times (currently the world's strongest superpower, Taihu Lake is 9.3 billion times per second, about 110 billion times i7-8700K) .
It is reported that China has independently developed a 10-qubit superconducting quantum wire samples.
