In the evening of January 8, local Intel time Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, revealed in his speech that Intel has delivered the first 49 quantum bit quantum computing test chip to research partner QuTech.
Earlier in October 2017, Intel announced the development of a new 17-quantum-dot superconducting chip and handing the chip to QuTech, a partner of the Netherlands Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Research Center, which is a quantum computation from the laboratory to the actual production An important step taken.
The so-called quantum computing, refers to make full use of some of the basic physics, superposition and entanglement of computing technology and transistor-based and need to encode the data into a binary digit (digit) of the digital computer is not the same, the quantum computer using qubits to calculate. These qubits can exist in multiple states at the same time, making it possible to do large numbers of calculations in parallel to speed up the resolution. Essentially, quantum computing addresses the computational problems in extreme parallelism and is the ultimate goal of parallel computing.
According to Brian Krzanich, quantum computing is expected to solve some of the most insurmountable problems of today: quantum computers, for example, mimic nature and thus advance the study of chemistry, materials science and molecular modeling such as creating a new catalyst to isolate carbon dioxide, developing room temperature Superconductors, or discover new drugs Quantum computing has the potential to enhance the capabilities of future high-performance computers.
China and the United States are the two major countries in the world that have made significant breakthroughs in quantum computing. In August 2016, the research team at the University of Science and Technology of China developed a superlattice system and a supercooled atomic microscope with a resolution of only 1 micron. And through them for the first time to prepare and control about 600 pairs of entangled state of ultra-cold atomic bits, quantum computing has taken an important step in 2017. 2017 3, Institute of Quantum Information and Quantum Technology Innovation announced that the world The first quantum computer that surpassed the early classical computer was born in China. There are three types of quantum computers that have made the most rapid progress in the world: light quantum computer, ultra-cold atomic quantum computer and superconducting quantum computer, and our scientists released Quantum Computer results include two, belong to the light quantum computer and superconducting quantum computer category.