I think that’s a gross overstatement. My impression is that these are PoCs demonstrating certain properties but not actually useful for computation. It’s an imp

I think that’s a gross overstatement. My impression is that these are PoCs demonstrating certain properties but not actually useful for computation. It’s an important milestone, but I think it’s too early to tell how close we are to cracking 1024 bit RSA, assuming it’s even possible to achieve anywhere near the theoretical speed up in reality. Remember - theoretical is based on our current models but in practice real-world physics comes into play & starts limiting the ability to scale this up to perform computations faster than classical approaches. It’s entirely possible that there’s a missing link in our model that would prevent us from realizing anything like the idealized quantum computer that could be used to solve BQP/EQP problems efficiently.