8 years ago

IBM to build quantum computers, selling machines millions of times faster than anything made before

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Quantum computers rely on quantum mechanics and the bizarre behaviour of quantum bits to do calculations far faster than any computer yet known. That work has shown enough promise that IBM executives believe such computers could soon be made commercially available, they said. As such it will create APIs that allow developers and programmers to start working on machines that will be able to send programmes between quantum computers and traditional ones. Later this year it will also release a simulator that can mimic the kind of circuits that will be inside quantum computers, allowing people to get to work making software for them.

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