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There will be 2 answers to that question and they will both be right and wrong at the same time :) Maybe not at the end of this year, but very soon, quantum su
by ToFab123 9y ago
There will be 2 answers to that question and they will both be right and wrong at the same time :)
Maybe not at the end of this year, but very soon, quantum supremacy will be claimed by one of companies that are developing a quantum computer similar to the d-wave computer used by Google and others. That is sort a single purpose computer that can only be used to perform a very limited set of work loads, but it still qualifies as a quantum computer, but will most like be a very limited in what it can do and how useful it will be.
A few years later you will see quantum supremacy be claimed by one the companies trying to build a general purpose quantum computer like Microsoft. It is first then the quantum revolution will take off.
- mtgx 9y agoBoth Google and IBM are building general purpose computers not D-Wave-like quantum computers. They will likely both reach quantum supremacy before Microsoft, which itself has said could take another decade to make something useful out of its topological quantum computing architecture.