What Are Traditional Microprocessors To Current Computer Technology?

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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!