IBM unveils new quantum computing chip to 'explore new frontiers of science'

IBM, the computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology giant, unveiled on Monday (4) a new quantum computing chip and machine that, according to the company, could serve as building blocks for much larger and faster systems. than traditional silicon-based computers.

The launch by IBM what you call Quantum System Two, which uses three cryogenically cooled “Heron” chips, comes as technology rivals including Microsoft: Google da A: Baidu of China and others, are racing to develop machines that use quantum bits – subatomic particles that – unlike those or zeros of traditional computing – can be in “superposition” of one and zero at the same time.

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IBM says it has developed a new way of connecting chips inside machines that, when combined with new error-correcting code, could produce quantum machines by 2033. The company says it plans to use the new chip in its enterprise AI platform, watsonx.

Quantum computing could allow problems in physics, chemistry, engineering and medicine to be solved in minutes, which would take today's supercomputers millions of years to complete – if at all.

IBM said it has installed one of the new machines at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where, according to research director Serpil Erzurum, the technology could one day be used to model the behavior of proteins and the shapes they take depending on their function. .

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