Amazon joins the quantum computing race, announcing new ‘Ocelot’ chip
Amazon Web Services on Thursday debuted its new quantum computing chip, a prototype called Ocelot.The company says the Ocelot represents a breakthrough in error correction and scalability.The quantum computing field is heating up with recent advancements from Google and Microsoft.Amazon Web Services on Thursday debuted its prototype quantum chip, the Ocelot, making headway in the…
Satya Nadella explains why Microsoft’s quantum ‘breakthrough’ is so important
Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip the company says is powered by a new state of matter.The new chip allows for more stable, scalable, and simplified quantum computing, the company says.The development is "just as revolutionary as the silicon transistor," a quantum expert told BI.Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip the…
Advancements in quantum computing could undermine Trump’s crypto plans
Many of the world's secrets, from individual finances to national security, rely on encryption.Major developments in quantum computing call for new security procedures, researchers told BI.Quantum computers could end encryption as we know it and risk geopolitical instability.As Donald Trump prepares to take office, he's leaning into his self-proclaimed title of "crypto president," launching his own official…
Quantum computing will be the next big tech trend to have...
Following is a transcript of the video.Alex Craddock: I think, look, outside of gen AI, the only other one that is on my radar, just because probably gen AI is so overwhelming at this stage, it's hard to think about what's beyond that, I think is quantum computing.I think it's the speed and the impact…
IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties
Enlarge / The small quantum processor (center) surrounded by cables that carry microwave signals to it, and the refrigeration hardware. As we described earlier this year, operating a quantum computer will require a significant investment in classical computing resources, given the amount of measurements and control operations that need to be executed and interpreted. That…
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Getty Images Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in Windows and Linux. The library, started in 2006, provides operations and algorithms developers can use to…
Microsoft performs operations with multiple error-corrected qubits
Enlarge / Quantinuum's H2 "racetrack" quantum processor.Quantinuum On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet. "Since April, we've tripled the number of logical qubits here," said Microsoft Technical Fellow Krysta Svore. "So…
Why every quantum computer will need a powerful classical computer
Enlarge / A single logical qubit is built from a large collection of hardware qubits. One of the more striking things about quantum computing is that the field, despite not having proven itself especially useful, has already spawned a collection of startups that are focused on building something other than qubits. It might be easy…
Microsoft doubles down on quantum computing and other science projects in...
Quantum computing is a gnarly technical challenge that tech giants have been hacking away at for more than a decade.Microsoft isn't giving up, according to an internal memo detailing cuts in other parts of the company's operations.Business Insider broke the news on Monday that Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from its Azure cloud business.…
Quantum error correction used to actually correct errors
Enlarge / Quantinuum's H2 "racetrack" quantum processor.Quantinuum Today's quantum computing hardware is severely limited in what it can do by errors that are difficult to avoid. There can be problems with everything from setting the initial state of a qubit to reading its output, and qubits will occasionally lose their state while doing nothing. Some…
