Optical Processors Light the Path to Warp-Factor Computing
Data has been sent across wide-area networks as light pulses for decades, but optical (or photonic) computing has been slow to meet the challenges of moving data in the form of light at the processor level: photons have proved profoundly trickier to traffic than electrons. And while conventional data processing continued to get faster year-after-year, there seemed scant incentive for technologists to crack the optical conundrum.
Taiwan Recognizes End of Moore’s Law and Need for Quantum Computing Funding
Taiwan government to support companies in quantum era Points to note… + Amid concerns that quantum computing could threaten the existence of the semiconductor industry, Taiwan’s minister of science and technology Tsung-Tsong Wu has noted that his ministry will continue to provide support to companies such as TSMC to help them maintain their competitiveness in […]
Op Ed: From Weather Predicting and DNA Sequencing to Grocery Sack Optimization, Quantum Computing Could be the Solution
Op Ed: From Weather Predicting and DNA Sequencing to Grocery Sack Optimization, Quantum Computing Could be the Solution If you have doubts on the direction quantum computing may be headed, take a look at this editorial and opinion. Very positive spin and in everyday people’s terms. There will be one at every grocery checkout; or […]
Moore’s Law Getting a Second Wind With Hardware Accelerators + CPUs
Moore’s Law Getting a Second Wind With Hardware Accelerators + CPUs Analyst View: The climb to quantum supremacy – SD Times Excerpts and salient points ~ + The switch from single to multi-core CPUs has helped keep the curve from going completely flat, but what is creating a second wave of Moore’s Law are hardware […]
Quantum Computing and Moore’s Law, One Arrives, One Goes
Quantum Computing and Moore’s Law, One Arrives, One Goes A Quantum Continuation for Moore’s Law? Selected notes ~ + While engineers grapple with the end of Moore’s law, rudimentary prototypes of a completely new type of machine — the quantum computer — have been making news. These devices exploit the properties of quantum mechanics — […]
Hype, Hope, Moore’s Law, and Quantum Computing; India and France Collaborate
Hype, Hope, Moore’s Law, and Quantum Computing; India and France Collaborate ‘Quantum computing’s trapped between hype and hope … in science you get surprises and what’s useful may not be what we expect now’ Excerpts and salient points ~ + One way to combat the quantum decoherence is supercooling, but it’s impractical for commercialisation. What […]
Neven’s Law & The Doubly Exponential Rate of Quantum Computing Power
Neven’s Law & The Doubly Exponential Rate of Quantum Computing Power A new “law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year Excerpts and salient points ~ + In December 2018, scientists at Google AI ran a calculation on Google’s best quantum processor. They were able to reproduce the computation using a regular laptop. Then in […]
Silicon for Quantum Computing Uses
Silicon for Quantum Computing Uses Battle of the Elements: silicon builds digital revolution from sand Silicon is the element that driven the biggest changes in our modern lives. Silicon chips in computers, phones, and all sorts of other gadgets have revolutionized both the way we work and the way we play, while optical fibres made […]
Bridging the Gap Between the End of Moore’s Law and Quantum Computers
Engineers Boost Potential for Creating Successor to Shrinking Transistors Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that convey digital information.Scientists’ pursuit of the smallest possible transistor has allowed more of them to be packed […]
Sobering Up Before Taking the Quantum Leap
Sobering Up Before Taking the Quantum Leap Quantum computing is one of the centers of gravity in leading edge technology today. There’s much in the media which is fausses nouvelles; quantum computing not to be excluded. Keeping quantum computing in perspective, help yourself shake out the fact from the fiction, the inflated from the hyper-inflated, […]