IBM claims its Quantum chip could exceed Classical Computers in two years
International Business Machines (IBM) has designed a new quantum computing chip that its executives believe will let quantum systems start to outperform classical computers at some tasks within the next two years.
IBM said its “Eagle” computing chip has 127 “qubits”, which can process information in a quantum system. Classical computers work using “bits” that must use a 1 or 0, but “qubits” can use a 1 and 0 simultaneously.
While Apple Inc’s newest M1 Max chip has 57 billion transistors – a rough proxy for bits – IBM says that its new Eagle chip is the first to have more than 100 qubits.
IBM said that the new techniques that it learned in building the chip will eventually produce more qubits when combined with other advances in the quantum computer’s refrigeration and control systems. The company is planning to develop an “Osprey” chip in 2022 with 433 qubits and a “Condor” chip 1,121 qubits.
At that point, the company says it will be close to what is called "quantum advantage," the point at which quantum computers can beat classical computers. But, instead of overtaking the traditional computers, IBM envisions a world where some parts of a computing application run on traditional chips and some parts run on quantum chips, depending on what works best for each task.
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