RIP Charlie Kirk you would have loved China's first photonic quantum computer factory
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quantum computing is still in its very early infancy, literally NOTHING about it is stable yet. we can barely get them to run a dijkstra's algorithm, let alone anything actually useful. if you don't keep the processor cool enough it'll just kill itself, and we're already trying to mass produce them? putting that aside, quantum computers have a very small use case. most things it does, a classical computer can do better. who is the target userbase for this? the very saturated market of theoretical quantum physicists? i am very skeptical of this man
I know little, but wasn't microsoft hawking some quantum accelerator chip a while back? It was a card like a GPU that you put into a regular PC's expansion slot to do quantum calculations. Expensive (a few thousand) and still niche but seemed like a good enough proof of concept that you can mass manufacture these things
it was built off a theoretical particle (majorana) and as always they conveniently left out some things so from what i remember the chip was fundamentally useless because it barely worked in practice and the existence of the particle it was built on is still very dubious (aka we've got no proof it's actually a thing). read more here
Better to over-invest into quantum computers than under-invest into them.
Plus, technological development bears fruit on the timespan of decades.
field has promise but for the next few years it's not gonna have much use, can't wait for quantum cybersec to become a thing tho
quantum encryption? quantum communications?
that too, but classic cybersecurity is already neglected enough in the field, let alone this new and novel technology that nobody has any idea how to properly use yet.
I read something about them being able to crack encryption once they're powerful enough? This was years ago tho
still true but setting quantum computers up is a pain in the ass
Which is why there is a big focus on post-quantum cryptography so that by the point they're practical to use for that, nobody will be using quantum-computer-vulnerable algorithms.
https://blogs.oracle.com/security/post/post-quantum-cryptography
if I heard about them right, the appeal of photonic ones is they're room temp
second point still stands, but damn they've made a room temp quantum computer? we might be making advances for once.
Them Chaanees bilt a quannum campootah and alls it does is break ground? Pfft I coulda dun dat with a shovel
How many horsepowers does it have, jack? 
I wish they said more about what they will be able to do with those computers.
Broadly speaking, we'll see exponential advances in simulation/modelling capacity especially related to medicine/industry. Possible advances in space exploration (think: newly discovered materials, energy efficiency). State actors will use quantum computing to crack modern encryption as one of the earliest applications.
I think it's way too early to talk about any of that, a lot of the stuff quantum computing promises is still only theoretical and so far there hasn't been a single "real" quantum computer that behaves is it does in the theory.
IBM’s roadmap is pretty aggressive, with users projected to start running “large-scale quantum-centric problems by 2029”
With respect to theory, Google’s 105-qubit Willow processor performed a benchmark task in 5 minutes that would take the world's fastest classical supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete.
I’m not sure this stuff is as theoretical or distant as it might feel.
I'll believe it when I see it tbh, these companies are known to lie through their teeth about this shit, quantum computing is IMO a bubble not too dissimilar to the AI bubble, just maybe less money overall involved.
I guess we'll see what happens once they start applying them.
If LLMs are any indication they can do a bunch of crap really poorly but most importantly make the line go up