On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:49:58 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell
This looks to be a somewhat more detailed statement of this product: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-introduces-horse-ridge-enable-commerci...
yeah, that source is a bit better... So, a few datapoints 1) the chip is an 'ordinary' chip used to interface to qbits. It's not a 'quantum chip' itself. 2) the project is a textbook fascist project done by 'cooperation' between criminals at intel and criminals at the dutch government "TU Delft and TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research)" 3) here's an interesting bit "...scale the quantum system to the hundreds or thousands of qubits required to demonstrate quantum practicality, not to mention the millions of qubits required for a commercially viable quantum solution" oh so an actually working system requires millions of qbits, but the current systems have at best 50? Well hopefully they will never manage to get more than 50. https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/what-it-will-take-make-quantum-compute... "applications such as drug development, logistics optimization...natural disaster prediction and many more." 'natural disaster prediction' sounds like complete bullshit. As to the other two, who gives a fuck. Of course the scumbag at intel isn't commenting on any military application included in the 'many more' category... bottom line : QC is either useless or harmful, and hopefully will never work.