OT: Intel Debut Quantum CPU Prototype
Ghosty12
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As the title suggests and the video shows Intel have debuted their first Quantum CPU, all can say is wow the future does look to be getting interesting..
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I am embarassed that the only application I was wondering about- is what they could do with my render times and where I could keep the cooling drum.
Here's the thing...nobody actually has a clue what all of that means, but the name "quantum" sure sounds cool. So it's something new to be excited about, because new is better. And faster. Which is better.
BTW, am I the only one who can't watch that guy, and finds him totally annoying?
This article http://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing-explained might explain what Quantum computing is and why it will eventually be the next stage in the evolution of computing..
Thanks. Interesting. Super fast technology that's faster and better than what we have now, but nobody knows when or if it will be available to consumers in our lifetimes.
Quantum CPU != Quantum computer? We'll have to wait for the hype to disipate.
I like the fact (sort of) that quantum computers break all existing encryption instantly; they do however offer unbreakable encryption using quantum entanglement iirc.
+1
He's like the squirrel in "Over the Hedge" on coffee. And I'm sure he appeals to a certain mindset. But I can tolerate him if I pretend he's me 50 years ago.
The YouTube personalities that I turn off are the ones that try to be political pundits but have the personality of wet toilet paper, the speed of a sloth, and fill their story with useless non-essentials before skirting around their point.
I'd rather listen to a qualified pundit who gets straight to his idiotic point just so I could know which vulgarities to shout at the screen within seconds of him opening his mouth. 
The history of computing has been to go faster and faster to get to an exact answer but somehow it seems we keep throwing bigger problems at it or wasting its time with unnecessary graphics and fancy fonts. So, the net result is that we still find ourselves waiting in frustration. Now, with quantum computing we can have a "quantum leap" in speed to get to a best-guess answer.
From the consumer/hobbyist perspective, I'm imagining there will be a point at which all of this new processing power becomes irrelevant. I mean, after a 4k monitor, which we can barely even detect a difference, what are monitor makers going to do next? Who's gonna want to pay for a 16k monitor that fills, or wraps around our living rooms?
And if you look at stuff like the new Blender Eeevee renderer, which arguably produces photorealistic rendering in realtime, what else will people be willing to pay for? Photorealistic games at 200fps about all we need. Sure, some will fall for (I mean, buy) the whole VR thing, but even that has a limit.
When technology advances past where we can even notice, I feel bad for the vendors trying to find the next awesome thing that people are willing to pay for. And at the end of the day, most of this stuff is about entertainment, not solving real important issues.
Long time before that happens. Realtime rendering is still very limited and full of hacks, performance limitations still a major factor for games today. And then there's VR where we eventually want 8k per eye at 500 or even 1000 Hz.
...realtime rendering? Not happening without a lot of memory (VRAM or physical) to support it.
Not sure. But I do know there's a universal law that always applies: You never get something for nothing.
I read that the intel quantum cpu has 49 qubits and intel said it will take 1,000,000 qubits to be commercially viable so well it sound like to me it'll be a while.
As far as the announcer well he is OK. It's expected to be excited and enthusiastic as a tech fan reporter and does a pretty good job at that. The only dumb part of it was when he says 'sh*t' towards the end. Really, why don't people realize using vulgar language is violating the listener's desire for clean private thought? Sh*t stinks, is not nice to look at, and that's why we have toilets & flush it. But whatever.
I wouldn't wonder if Big Brother / NSA will try to confiscate the technology or make it illegal for anyone but themselves so they can break all legacy encryption schemes while at the same time have their own encryption no one else can break.
Quantum memory perhaps?
No that would be bad bad juju. Why? Because hackers already don't care what is illegal and there would always be other countries without these restrictions. So all a government would manage by this law would be that suddenly every business that requires encryption in their country would be 100% vulnerable, and the bad guys wouldn't be. Corporations would not stand for this.
...sounds pricey.
Yes, if you have the money there's always someone willing to sell you whatever you want. I'm not sure if US law still prohibits encryption software above 128 bit for the public but that law hasn't stopped anyone from using stronger encryption. With quantum tech the problem is more about getting the hardware though, technically it's a very advanced and expensive technology that may be difficult to scale down to a consumer level. But who knows, much of todays consumer hardware was unimaginable just a few decades ago.
BTW, Quantum hard disks have been available for years :P
http://www.4drives.biz/images/DRIVEPICTURES/QUANTUM_GO120AT.jpg
BTW, Quantum hard disks have been available for years :P
"Quantum" has become one of those overused/misused tech words that have obscured their original meaning. Like "hologram". Most public stage "holograms" aren't Holograms, they're just clever projections.
Of course they will/would if they could.
It is also possible, that the dreaded BSOD is on very rare occasions the effect of Quantum Mechanics.
At the subatomic level (as sizes shrink 10nm is about), electrons are constrained to follow pathways. Quantum Tunnelling is where an electron decides to go awol; it hits a barrier that might force it to change direction, but instead continues going. Such an occurance in the CPU at a certain time just might trigger a BSOD, as the required result is currently heading for Galactic Centre at close to the speed of light.
"With quantum tech the problem is more about getting the hardware though, technically it's a very advanced and expensive technology that may be difficult to scale down to a consumer level. But who knows, much of todays consumer hardware was unimaginable just a few decades ago."
Even if one could get the hardware, it would be virtually useless. It's a 49 qubit machine chip (anything commercially usable would require aprox. 1million qubits) without an OS or apps to run. Its a good step that must be taken but it is far from complete and even the details needed to complete it are largely theoretical. Quantum technology is in its baby diapers and there is hardly anything to want to acquire by anyone other than computer scientists.
The quantum confusion (there are over 100 different versions of the theory) is caused by a lack of understanding of polarity as the basic unifying principle of all physics, including quantum mechanics as well as biology and our DNA. If you understand the polarity principle (aka yin yang) you got the key to it all. The old Chinese understood it already - the system behind the 2000+ year old IChing is 100% identical to a 64 bit binary sequence, which is also the basis of our DNA.
http://russellianscience.net/misc/dna_iching