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Canada Will Get Its First Universal Quantum Computer From IBM (engadget.com) 32

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Quantum computing is still rare enough that merely installing a system in a country is a breakthrough, and IBM is taking advantage of that novelty. The company has forged a partnership with the Canadian province of Quebec to install what it says is Canada's first universal quantum computer. The five-year deal will see IBM install a Quantum System One as part of a Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator project tackling scientific and commercial challenges. The team-up will see IBM and the Quebec government foster microelectronics work, including progress in chip packaging thanks to an existing IBM facility in the province. The two also plan to show how quantum and classical computers can work together to address scientific challenges, and expect quantum-powered AI to help discover new medicines and materials. IBM didn't say exactly when it would install the quantum computer. However, it will be just the fifth Quantum One installation planned by 2023 following similar partnerships in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the US. Canada is joining a relatively exclusive club, then.
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  • exclusive? (Score:3)

    by bloodhawk ( 813939 ) on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:27PM (#62234825)

    Canada is joining a relatively exclusive club, then.

    I wouldn't really say exclusive, as they say a sucker is born every minute.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      "The first rule of Suckers Club is that you don't admit to anyone you are a sucker."

      AKA, "Nondisclosure agreement".
           

      • Maybe those qbits are entailed with the US?

        I wonder how D-wave feels about this

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by shanen ( 462549 )

          Mod most of thread Funny.

          I didn't realize Schrodinger's cat had gone and not gone to Canada. But does the quantum computer track each of the cat's lives separately?

      • "The first rule of Suckers Club is that you don't admit to anyone you are a sucker."

        The real suckers will be just buying NFTs of Quantum Computers.

        • "The first rule of Suckers Club is that you don't admit to anyone you are a sucker."

          The real suckers will be just buying NFTs of Quantum Computers.

          You should patent that idea in a big hurry. Could be a massive money maker.

    • However, it will be just the fifth Quantum One installation

      Like Thomas Watson of IBM fame said: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"

      • That is always one of those quotes taken out of context. At the time it was supposedly made at a shareholders meeting in reference to a particular model (IBM 701)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by bn-7bc ( 909819 )
      well they probable said something similar about the first horseless carriage (ie car), now tell me again how that turned out (Looks out on street full of parked cars and nods). Or what about the first powered flight, the write flyer probably did not seam all that useful, but about a decade later we had the first commercial airline. My point is we might be at the start of this whole quantum computing thing, or to take my above example, somewhere between the Write Flyer and the first commercial airline. W

  • Not a general-purpose quantum PC (Score:4, Informative)

    by GameboyRMH ( 1153867 ) <`gameboyrmh' `at' `gmail.com'> on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:43PM (#62234875) Journal

    Let me save you the trouble of searching to find out if IBM has suddenly produced a general-purpose quantum computer out of nowhere. No, they didn't, it's just another quantum annealer, although it does have 20 qubits and much improved error correction & reset capability, and a snazzy case.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      Let me save you the trouble of searching to find out if IBM has suddenly produced a general-purpose quantum computer out of nowhere. No, they didn't, it's just another quantum annealer, although it does have 20 qubits and much improved error correction & reset capability, and a snazzy case.

      In other words, Quebec gets swindled, because if it's just a quantum annealer, D-Wave is a Canadian company doing the same thing.

      Though, I somehow doubt it's just a quantum annealer because D-Wave is claiming quite a

  • Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those things?

  • I want a Meta Computer

  • Specialized Quantum Computers From IBM

  • Trudeau has announced (Score:3)

    by ruddk ( 5153113 ) on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:15PM (#62235165)

    Trudeau has announced that it will identify itself as both zero and one at the same time.

  • Quantum blockchain - a distributed ledger where all transactions co-exist in superposition with their reversals. Now we're talkin' about some awesome accounting.

  • ...to predict whether a particular moose can appear in two places at the same time.
  • Can anyone point me to a paper where somebody says "here is a real-world problem with real data. Here is what we can do with a classical computer. Here is how we do better (for our definition of "better") with this quantum algorithm that runs on a quantum computer that actually physically exists"?

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