“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.
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.
A team of scientists from France, Germany, and the U.S., are working to develop techniques and materials to produce “indistinguishable photons”. Doing so would permit greater integration into the current high-speed, light-based, computing infrastructure found throughout the globe. This is a necessity to expanding quantum computing, in a practical sense. Other facets to the research include increasing the quantum workforce: “Ultimately, we hope to draw more researchers into this field” the team commented.
Research supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is progressing toward efficient quantum circuits (quantum algorithms) with available quantum computing equipment. Availability and expense curtail proliferation of resources to conduct quantum computation. The researchers find it an imperative to optimize quantum algorithms to make best use of the available resources as these are likely to remain in high-demand, low-availability. Read on for details on optimizing these circuits.
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
Why Is China Winning? If you believe all you read, China should be winning the quantum computing race. If you don’t believe all you read,
