invaluable,
but now comes a new optical chip that can speed things up
almost beyond belief, scientists at the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
in Japan have debuted new optical chip, already the chip has been able
to tackle typically year-long experiments in just a matter of hours, so here is
the technical bit, standard computers operate on a system of bits
based on transistors, wherein each bit is either a “0” or a “1”, in a simple
system of 8 bits, there are 28 states in which the computer can
exist and it will exist in exactly one of these, in a quantum computer, the
fundamental unit is the qubit which is based not on a
transistor, but on some two-state quantum mechanical phenomenon, in a system
with 8 qubits, there will be 28 possible states and the
computer can exist in any arbitrary superposition of these states simultaneously,
this will allow quantum computers, when they have truly come into existence, to
tackle problems that are too computationally complex for traditional
computation, for example, sorting through vast chemical libraries to design new
pharmaceuticals, performing superfast database searches, or solving complex
mathematical problems that have so far eluded even our modern supercomputers,
this has been published this week in one of the most prestigious
journals, Science, but it may take a bit of time for
this optical chip to trickle down to us lesser mortals and even then I think it may well be expensive, so gamers who want fast game action,
start saving now!
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