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Microsoft’s new coding language is made for quantum computers
- jeffwass 9y agoThis isn't interesting, particularly comparing number of qubits in start-of-the-art to number of bits of memory classical computers had in the old days. Ie - the article mentions a potential 40-qubit machine for their enterprise customers. I remember how quickly computers evolved in memory size or speed from k to M to G. But 40 is just such a small number, almost like number of bits in magnetic core memory units or CRT phosphor screen storage units. Probably in twenty years our kids will be using megaqubit or gigaqubit machines and laugh at the top-end-yet-still-nonexistent 40 qubit machine we're drooling over today. (And in case anyone thinks I'm mixing up the performance/calculations like scope of classical bits vs qubits, no I'm not, it's just an observation of ordinality)