Neowin News Feed for: Computation

IBM's new roadmap for quantum computing promises 100x speedups and then some

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:06:01 +0000

IBM detailed its plans for realizing full-scale quantum computers by 2030. Latest updates promise 100x faster circuit execution, greater algorithmic complexities, and a tamed barrier to entry for QC. Read more...

Gooseberry: A dive into Microsoft's new quantum control chip to handle thousands of qubits

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:30:01 +0000

An in-depth look at Microsoft's quantum control chip - Gooseberry - and cryo-compute core that can be used to control thousands of qubits, paving way for practical large-scale quantum computers. Read more...

Intel Labs Day 2020: Robotics demonstrations and a next-gen neuromorphic chip on the horizon

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:00:05 +0000

At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel showed two robots running on its neuromorphic Loihi chip. Mercedes-Benz, Lenovo, and others have joined the INRC. A next-gen neuromorphic chip is also in the pipeline. Read more...

Sycamore ran the largest chemical simulation performed on a quantum computer to date

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:20:01 +0000

Using the same 54-qubit quantum computer used to show quantum supremacy, researchers ran the Hartree-Fock approximation—twice as large as previous experiments with ten times as many quantum gate ops. Read more...

Amazon Braket, a fully managed quantum computing service, hits general availability

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:32:01 +0000

Amazon Braket is now generally available. It supports local simulation of quantum algorithms on EC2 instances and provides access to real quantum computing hardware from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti. Read more...

Microsoft researchers solve two 20-year-old problems in quantum computing

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 05 May 2020 19:46:02 +0000

A team of researchers at Microsoft Quantum showed that a quartic speed up for unstructured problems with quantum algorithms is the limit and also proved an age-old conjecture about a graph property. Read more...

CERN contributes 10,000 computer cores to the Folding at Home project

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:58:01 +0000

CERN has contributed 10,000 computer cores from its main data center to the Folding@home project becoming the 87th biggest contributor. The project now has almost 2.5 exaFLOPS of computing power. Read more...

Honeywell claims to have created the most powerful quantum computer to date

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:42:01 +0000

Boasting a quantum volume of 64 — twice more than leading alternatives like IBM Q's System One — Honeywell claims that it has created the world's most powerful quantum computer by leveraging QCCD. Read more...

Toshiba's new algorithm seemingly leverages quantum computing while running on ordinary PCs

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:06:01 +0000

Employing the principles of quantum computing while running on a PC built with off-the-shelf components, Toshiba's Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm churns through market data in microseconds. Read more...

Quantum supremacy has reportedly been achieved by Google [Update]

Ather Fawaz — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:50:01 +0000

With a 72-qubit quantum computer, researchers at Google have claimed that they have solved a problem that can only be solved by quantum computers in only three minutes and 20 seconds. Read more...