Hi ansy1968,
Kind of cold here, hope you staying warm, lol.
The brain drain is becoming less and less of an issue anymore in my humble view, because China itself graduates a large numbers of STEM degrees. Perhaps the most in the world.
Has the brain drain actually reversed and going the other way? That could be bad for American companies.
Let's face it, Intel gave up at 10nm fabrication. Does SMIC have 10nm fabrication and lower?
What really has me interested is that quantum computer they build. I really think it is kick ass. Even though I am not even a scientist or engineer.
Look at the thing. Look at that diagram. Now, stand up and walk away from the computer screen at least 10 feet. That diagram looks like a printed circuit board. A circuit board only has one function basically, let it do what it does.
But, that quantum computer is scalable. So let's say you make four of them all sitting together, all those circuit boards, four of the same quantum computer they built.
Now the engineering can have the laser, the splitters, the crystals, change angles or turn the off or on, or whatever, have those devices connected by the engineers to a computer or levers. So if you want some other quantum program done, just pull a couple of levers you know, lol.
What is a semiconductor chip? That is circuitry, mirco-circuitry. There is a path for the electricity to flow through. The 1 and 0. Look at that diagram of the quantum computer. That is where the photon flows through, just like the circuitry.
The semiconductor chip has many paths, or instruction sets (I think that is what that is called, the assembler language, probably use the EDA tools to design that). The quantum computer diagram, that has only one path, only one instruction set, to execute only one program.
Doesn't this mean, they could just adjust the configuration to the set up, or instruction set, or paths of photons, and create a different program to be run? Seems to me that is what they could be able to do at UTSC in China with that experiment next if they wanted. Maybe they won't tell anyone this time.
Talking out loud here because this forum has engineers and programmers, and they are smart, would like to hear comments.
That is why I believe the Liberal media will not tell us the truth about this. We got to think about it for ourselves.
