{"id":124739,"date":"2021-07-09T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/chinas-new-quantum-tech-is-100-trillion-times-faster-than-googles"},"modified":"2021-07-09T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:24:08","slug":"chinas-new-quantum-tech-is-100-trillion-times-faster-than-googles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/chinas-new-quantum-tech-is-100-trillion-times-faster-than-googles","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new Quantum tech is 100 trillion times faster than Google\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-new-quantum-tech-is-100-trillion-times-faster-than-googles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 o.o\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google\u2019s Sycamore used to be the world\u2019s fastest quantum computer on the planet, with 54 cubits of quantum computational power. <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2019\/10\/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google declared Quantum Supremacy<\/strong><\/a> with Sycamore in October 2019 by running a calculation in 200s that would have taken the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer 10000 years the execute. (in case you\u2019re wondering; Quantum Supremacy is when a quantum computer can complete a task that no supercomputer could achieve.) <\/p>\n<p>The research team at the University of Science and Technology of China ran a similar simulated comparison to its quantum calculation. China\u2019s top quantum computer, dubbed Jiuzhang, completed a calculation in 3 minutes that would have taken TaihuLight, the country\u2019s fastest supercomputer, and third fastest in the world, 2 billion years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Google and China did not run the same calculations on their systems, so a direct comparison is impossible, but the research team estimates that its quantum computer is 100 trillion times faster than Googles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 o.o\u2026 Google\u2019s Sycamore used to be the world\u2019s fastest quantum computer on the planet, with 54 cubits of quantum computational power. Google declared Quantum Supremacy with Sycamore in October 2019 by running a calculation in 200s that would have taken the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer 10000 years the execute. (in case you\u2019re wondering; Quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}