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IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] tungah@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How much is that in intel/AMD gigafloppers?

[โ€“] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's actually impossible to do a direct comparison of flops to what I guess we'd call quflops, as the algorithms are not directly comparable. Quantum computers are good at quantum algorithms that can do operations in a single time step that a classical computer couldn't, likewise, to simulate a classical computer on a quantum computer would be very resource intensive.