{"id":19886,"date":"2015-12-08T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:03","slug":"google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip","title":{"rendered":"Google says its quantum computer is more than 100 million times faster than a regular computer chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google appears to be more confident about the technical capabilities of its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, which it operates alongside NASA at the U.S. space agency\u2019s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n<p>D-Wave\u2019s machines are the closest thing we have today to quantum computing, which work with quantum bits, or qubits \u2014 each of which can be zero or one or both \u2014 instead of more conventional bits. The superposition of these qubits can allow great numbers of computations to be performed simultaneously, making a quantum computer highly desirable for certain types of processes.<\/p>\n<p>In two tests, the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab today announced that it has found the D-Wave machine to be considerably faster than simulated annealing \u2014 a simulation of quantum computation on a classical computer chip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/12\/08\/google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to be more confident about the technical capabilities of its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, which it operates alongside NASA at the U.S. space agency\u2019s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. D-Wave\u2019s machines are the closest thing we have today to quantum computing, which work with quantum bits, or qubits \u2014 each of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions\/69049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}