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Last November, America’s IBM launched the 433-qubit Osprey, the world’s fastest quantum computer to date.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/chinas-fastest-yet-quantum-computer-still-way-behind-us/
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The Condor processor is just one quantum-computing advance slated for 2023. A researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center examines some of the quantum hardware being constructed there. IBM’s Condor, the world’s first universal quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits, is set to debut in 2023. 24 Dec 2022
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-condor
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China’s fastest yet quantum computer still way behind US
Soon-to-be-launched Wukong will be China’s fastest at 72 qubits but still six times slower than IBM’s world-leading Osprey
by Jeff Pao June 9, 2023
China’s fastest quantum computer is set for launch but the machine won’t be anywhere near the world’s fastest, underscoring China’s quantum laggardness vis-a-vis the US.
Known as Wukong, Chinese mythology’s Monkey King, the locally-made 72-qubit computer has now in its final testing stage and is scheduled to come online next month, Zhang Hui, general manager of the Hefei-based Origin Quantum Computing Technology, said.
Last November, America’s IBM launched the 433-qubit Osprey, the world’s fastest quantum computer to date. Intel unveiled its 49-qubit quantum chip, known as Tangle Lake, in January 2018 while Google debuted its 72-qubit Bristlecone in March that same year.
Chinese scientists openly acknowledge the quantum gap with the West.
“China is indeed in the first echelon of quantum science research in the world,” Zhang said in a Guancha.cn article in December. “In quantum communication, China ranks among the top in the world in the number of papers and patents.” However, he said, “in quantum computing, we are relatively behind.”
Zhang said that’s because China’s overall industrial foundation is less advanced than the West’s. He noted that the development of quantum computers involves many advanced engineering issues, including the production of superconducting chips and traditional semiconductors – crucial high-tech realms where China lags the US and West.
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Citing public data, Zhang estimated that China is about three to four years behind leading countries in terms of quantum hardware. He also added that there is a huge gap between China and the US in the industrial applications of quantum computing.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/chinas-fastest-yet-quantum-computer-still-way-behind-us/
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