Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 329 The Quantum Dilemma
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Keelung is actually one of the two core cities of the Galaxy Consortium. Huang Haojie prefers the name Keelung to Taipei, which has a regional name.

Ziwei Beppu is the residence of the Huang family in Keelung, and it is also one of the main residences where Huang Haojie came to Dongdao.

Huang Haojie has now officially retreated behind the scenes, and his whereabouts are uncertain. He often uses bionic robots to appear in various groups, but which one is the real one, except for Zhong and his wife Guo Ting, no one else knows.

Under Ziwei Beppu, there is also a secret research institute with a huge space.

Looking at the quantum chip in his hand, Huang Haojie frowned: "Zhong, record the results of the experiment and destroy these failed products."

[Okay, master! ]
Under Zhong's command, more than a dozen robots acting as Huang Haojie's assistants cleaned up the laboratory in an orderly manner.

He sat on a chair with his head on one hand, quietly looking at the data and technology on the holographic display. The difficulty of quantum chips was beyond his imagination.

Regardless of Google, Microsoft, and even domestic research institutes have announced the progress of their quantum chips, how many qubits will be broken today, and how many qubits will be broken tomorrow. In fact, these are laboratory products, and they are not ready for large-scale promotion. practicality.

Moreover, the current quantum chips cannot completely replace traditional electronic chips. Quantum chip technology is still far away from us. It will take at least 10 years to realize the commercialization of semiconductor quantum computing.

Now in the world, the institutions that have achieved certain results in the research of quantum chip technology are: the Digital Annealer computing chip of the Sun Country IT giant Fujitsu, and Intel's silicon spin qubit (silicon spin qubit) technology. , and Dongtangsan quantum dot semiconductor technology.

Quantum computing is important because of its ability to quickly solve "human-scale" problems that were previously difficult to solve using traditional computing architectures.

For example, finding a solution to cancer and better personalized medical methods will play an extremely important role not only in the field of energy, but also in the most popular AI simulation, and even in uncovering more secrets of the universe.

The quantum physical phenomenon that is the basis of quantum computing is actually a common natural physical phenomenon that occurs in many different materials, chemicals or natural environments.

Therefore, there is not only one way to achieve it, just as the research scope of quantum computing has advanced from superconducting quantum to optical quantum, and even semiconductor quantum based on digital annealing technology has been mass-produced.

In other words, as long as the phenomena induced by materials can be observed with quantum physical characteristics, it is possible to use them for calculation.

It’s just that after nearly 20 years of development, the commercialization of quantum computing with superconducting technology as the core has insufficient software ecological maturity and extremely difficult mass production, and there are still great restrictions on the practical application level.

Although the quantum hegemony will be predicted from the current qubit scale of each company, in fact, the biggest limitation of quantum computing is not the lack of computing power, but the difficulty of popularization, making it difficult for ecological development to move forward effectively.

Also because of the current limitations of quantum computing, if the existing semiconductor production technology can be used to solve the problem of scale expansion and mass production of quantum computing chips.

Then, quantum chips may be able to enter general computing applications earlier than expected, and accelerate the maturity of related ecology, becoming the computing core including PCs, smart homes, cars, and even various networked devices, and completely changing human life.

In fact, Yinhe Technology's superconducting quantum chip is close to the practical stage. After all, Yinhe Technology has room temperature superconductors, which can get rid of the huge cooling structure required by superconducting quantum chips.

But being close to being practical means that it has not really been put into use.

Huang Haojie and the Quantum Computer Research Institute of Yinhe Technology have been considering how to smoothly transition from electronic computers to quantum computers. If they completely overthrow and start over, the price will undoubtedly be unbearable.

Most of the quantum computers produced by Yinhe Technology are used in the field of scientific research. Without a complete ecosystem, it is really difficult for quantum computers to be accepted by the public.

After all, the performance of electronic computers is already very powerful now, and the performance of personal mobile terminals or computers has obvious excess performance.

The superconducting electronic computer used by Yinhe Technology has even more powerful performance, so in the civilian field, the demand for quantum chips is very small.

However, in line with the idea of ​​technical reserves, Yinhe Technology has invested a huge amount of power in the development of quantum chips. At present, quantum chips can already integrate about 600 million qubits.

This level of quantum chip technology is already unique in the world. You must know that Intel has only integrated 1024 qubits so far, and the two are not at the same level at all.

And Yinhe Technology doesn't bother to publish papers all day long, or announce quantum supremacy. The outside world is confused about the various technologies of Yinhe Technology.

After all, the researchers of Galaxy Technology, even if they publish papers and the like, generally publish practical technologies in internal journals, while some theoretical papers are published in Galaxy Science Journals.

Even if it publishes the Yinhe Science Journal, this journal is only a Chinese journal, and there is no foreign language version. This is really unfriendly to many foreign scholars.

But Yinhe Technology doesn't care about these, I can understand it myself, as for people from other countries can't understand it, it's none of my business!

Therefore, in order to understand the scientific and technological information of Yinhe Technology, countries like Mi Lijia have to hire a large number of people who can speak Chinese to translate these papers.

Now the Quantum Computer Research Institute of Yinhe Technology is working on the improvement of the quantum computer ecology and how to realize the seamless connection between electronic computers and quantum computers.

And Huang Haojie is now studying the general communication between electronic computers and quantum computers. His idea is similar to transcoders (data switches), combined with limiters and the like.

The data switch can realize the interaction between quantum data and electronic data. As for the function of the limiter, it is to prevent the powerful quantum computer from exchanging data. freeze or crash.

But it was this data switch that made Huang Haojie and the Institute of Quantum Computers helpless. It wasn't that they couldn't make it, but that it was very bulky and costly.

The cost performance is too low, and it is not suitable for promotion in the civilian field. Now we can only slowly find ways to reduce the size and cost of the data switch, otherwise civilian use is unnecessary.

[Owner! 18:20 You still need to attend a small banquet, don't forget it! ]
Huang Haojie looked at the time and found that it was already 5:11 in the evening.

"Help me prepare hot water and a set of casual clothes."

[almost ready. ]
Take the elevator back to the ground, and the hot water and clothes in Ziwei Beppu are ready.

After taking a shower, Huang Haojie changed into casual clothes and headed for the living room in front.

(End of this chapter)