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What is quantum computing?
Reference Quantum computing opens the door to ultra-powerful machines that can perform calculations that would take supercomputers millions of years.
Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component
By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to twice as fast and consume 50% less energy.
World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day.
New DNA-infused computer chip can perform calculations and make future AI models far more efficient
The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.
Qubits are notoriously prone to failure — but building them from a single laser pulse may change this
Qubits are normally made from superconducting metals and need to be cooled to near absolute zero to avoid collapsing. But scientists just built an error-free "logical qubit" from a single laser pulse — and it works at room temperature.
World's 1st PC rediscovered by accident in UK house clearance nearly 50 years after last sighting
Two of the three last-known surviving Q1 microcomputers have resurfaced after they were last known to have been used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s.
World's 1st fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year ahead of a 10,000-qubit machine in 2026
QuEra has dramatically reduced the error rate in qubits — with its first commercially available machine using this technology launching with 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits.
How could this new type of room-temperature qubit usher in the next phase of quantum computing?
The qubit attained quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, which an expert described as an "important milestone" in quantum computing research.
