You can buy a portable [Chinese] quantum computer for under $9K

https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-buy-a-portable-quantum-computer-for-under-dollar9k/

by veqq • 4 years ago

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veqq• 4 years ago

The Gemini and Gemini Mini are the cheaper options ... 2-qubit machines or 8-qubit simulators
Triangulum ... 330W power draw ... weighing 40kg ... 3-qubit

ablatt89• 4 years ago

How exactly are they entangling the 2 qubits at room temperature? And how are they doing quantum error correcting? If I were to guess, I think they are lazily slapping on "quantum computing" to some system where QM is used to describe the properties of the system.

nighmi2• 4 years ago

That is also my suspicion although Im not knowledgeable about the technical issues, economically and impactwise this seems insane and completely out of left field. I thought IBM or such were experimenting on 8qubit machines costing hundreds of millions.

On the other handz I think there was also a cloud offer to use one for free, like wn old university computer, getting 5 seconds of compute.

abudabi123• 4 years ago

Order one quantum-field store and load achieved? Just imagine buying that with a Cs-133 backup clock and an os that never reboot.

JPLeRouzic• 4 years ago

This is the page of the manufacturer:

https://www.spinq.cn/products-solutions/Triangulum

As they wrote: "This product contains a powerful permanent magnet . The distance for 5 Gauss (0.5 mT) is 50 cm from this product. Keep a distance of at least 50 cm from cardiac pacemakers and other implanted electronic devices. Also, keep away from other electronic devices and magnetic media (credit cards, etc.)"

nighmi2• 4 years ago

Is this avtually legitimate? I know 2 or 3 bits is nothing (qubits are the same in importance, right?) but this implies the ability to manufacture at scale and network them. For a few million, you could make a cluster able to break a lot of security.

Or how do I misunderstand?

You can buy a portable [Chinese] quantum computer for under $9K

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