Intellectual Property Rights add to the ‘fire of genius’ by protecting an innovator’s invention. Such protections fuel inventiveness. But what happens when China gets involved with secret intellectual property rights agreements or outright theft?
Essential Building Block for Next Gen QC: Basic Reading & Writing. A quantum gate between photons and atoms [photonic qubits and atomic qubits] has successfully
“Made in China 2025” is China’s initiative to rein as world leader in technology — from telecommunications to artificial intelligence coupled with robots to quantum computing. A key accomplishment has been the over $10B put into their civilian-military quantum computing complex; this is aside from corporate mega-giants Huawei and Alibaba’s ‘commercial’ efforts.
China shows eagerness to beat the U.S. in leading the world with quantum technology. Let alone the tech in and of itself, the Chinese have recently formed a commission to study and develop standards in this emerging field’s potential applications. To do so would give China the edge in leading the world’s marketplace. So what should the U.S. be doing?
Testimony delivered to the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence leaves the winner of the “decades long marathon to develop a fully functional quantum computer” up in the air. Other testimony stated active research is being conducted on “quantum radar, imaging, and navigation technologies” by the Chinese defense industry. Further details are found in this research piece.
Recent legislative efforts in the U.S., technology advances, and international competition. Not to mention a skills shortage. Many challenges to international quantum computing competition; especially from China.
With improvements in both superconducting and semiconductor quantum chips, simulating a 50-qubit system using classical computers takes in the region of 16 petabytes of RAM. Chinese researchers have managed to simulate a 64-qubit system with greatly reduced hardware requirements. With such a reduction, realization of other quantum feats stands to be simulated while the world waits…because quantum is coming.
China is moving rapidly through developing quantum computing setting aside billions of U.S. dollars for research and development studies and facilities. In 2017, with the launch of the Micius satellite and subsequent successful quantum experiments involving entangled photons the Chinese appear to be leaps ahead of the global community. The brief history of China’s quantum ambitions and their thirst for supremacy in space have many implications in the geo-political spectrum. Will the ambitions reduce U.S. dominance internationally, both militarily and politically? THE NATIONAL INTEREST is carrying a very interesting piece covering China and possible influences to world stability if the path to quantum computing continues in its favor.
Canada, like Australia, the U.S., and well, China, is upping the ante in the quantum computing research business. Toronto-based firm Xanadu, has raised $9M to
Overcoming Quantum Key Distribution Vulnerabilities Researchers from Tsinghua University have developed a methodology which shows promise in reducing QKD vulnerabilities associated with eavesdropping. Present QKD
