Quantum computing thread
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China Mobile seems to be leading the effort in Quantum computing deployment in China
The mobile cloud/computing cloud conference was held 3 weeks ago.
At the time, I didn't actually look into all the participants. Now, it appears I missed something.
So aside from Origin Quantum, there are other players.
Q Boson got industrial investment from China Mobile in March and according to this, it's quantum computing power already used by China Mobile
Other part of the Wuyue quantum computing cloud includes 华翊量子 (HY Qubit), which was just formed in January 2022 and already has a 37 qubit quantum computing prototype called HYQ-A37 for commercial usage
The mobile cloud/computing cloud conference was held 3 weeks ago.
At the time, I didn't actually look into all the participants. Now, it appears I missed something.
So aside from Origin Quantum, there are other players.
Q Boson got industrial investment from China Mobile in March and according to this, it's quantum computing power already used by China Mobile
shortened network scheduling work to ms level operation, much faster than traditional computing.
Other part of the Wuyue quantum computing cloud includes 华翊量子 (HY Qubit), which was just formed in January 2022 and already has a 37 qubit quantum computing prototype called HYQ-A37 for commercial usage
More from Q Boson on how Quantum computers are used. They've been busy
Another important factor
Here mentions PingAn bank using Lambda lab to work with TiangGong QC to compute German credit data and completed computation in <1ms. That's when Q Boson & Ping An signed agreement to cooperate on utilizing QC for finance
In Power generation, Huada used QC to simulated load balance computation and found the optimal setting in 3.8s. Again, Q Boson signed cooperation with Huada in May to solve various problems in power industry
This would be a big one. Cloud computing. China Mobile cloud using Q Boson QC for their Hengshan Quantum computing platform for AI, biomedicine & smart transportation, among other things
and finally use QC for all the high data crunch you need for 6G
Another important factor
now, it's capable of solving problems with 100 variables. Problems can be solved with just software, no need for hardware changes. This actually is a huge step toward commercialization of QC
China Mobile cloud is quite interesting. They declared back in November the intention to create a full stack quantum computing computational platform and have it fully ready for customer use by 2025. They will use both optical quantum computer (like the one Q Boson uses) and superconducting quantum computer (like the one Origin Quantum created). these are two of 5 mountains they plan. The other 3 mountains being QC simulation platform, qc algo experimental platform & QC security service
Q Boson discussed more here and also states when they signed up the different partners. China Mobile cloud only signed up this month. Looks like they already have big plans and China Mobile Cloud continues to expand
Q Boson discussed more here and also states when they signed up the different partners. China Mobile cloud only signed up this month. Looks like they already have big plans and China Mobile Cloud continues to expand
quite interesting:
Looks like there are 3 types of quantum computer:
superconducting - seems like most common one, done by IBM, Google, Origin Quantum, Huawei, Baidu (36 qubits )
optical - more favored by Chinese players now? with CAS (255 qubits ) and now Q Boson (100 qubits)
trapped ion - This one I have not heard of before until now, but HY Qubit 华翊量子 (37 qubits) uses this technology & Quantinuum ()
Going through this reddit seems like there are advantages to all 3.
Alibaba appears to be working with CAS on this.
Huawei has their own QC simulation environment, but no mention of what the actual physical QC
If we go back to China Mobile cloud, they appear to be using all 3 types of QCs since they have signed on Origin Quantum, Q Boson & HY Qubits
Their roadmap is also interesting
It would seem to me that developing quantum computing usage rest not only on the hardware work, but also a lot of software developers need to learn how to use quantum computing library. I like the simulation idea, but still strange to not read more from Huawei & Alibaba on adopting these latest quantum computing firms that China Mobile will be using. Maybe they are keep their progress a secret and they have something better in store, who knows.
Looks like there are 3 types of quantum computer:
superconducting - seems like most common one, done by IBM, Google, Origin Quantum, Huawei, Baidu (36 qubits )
optical - more favored by Chinese players now? with CAS (255 qubits ) and now Q Boson (100 qubits)
trapped ion - This one I have not heard of before until now, but HY Qubit 华翊量子 (37 qubits) uses this technology & Quantinuum ()
Going through this reddit seems like there are advantages to all 3.
Alibaba appears to be working with CAS on this.
Huawei has their own QC simulation environment, but no mention of what the actual physical QC
If we go back to China Mobile cloud, they appear to be using all 3 types of QCs since they have signed on Origin Quantum, Q Boson & HY Qubits
Their roadmap is also interesting
So this year, they will have supercomputer to simulate quantum computer, so developers can try it out and ecosystem can be built up
next year, they will provide real quantum computer based on optical and superconducting QC, create secure quantum cloud, provide quantum security web, quantum security development platform, secure quantum encryption service
By 2025, they will have fully commercialized quantum computing simulation. Also will have full commercialization of shared usage of real quantum computers services
It would seem to me that developing quantum computing usage rest not only on the hardware work, but also a lot of software developers need to learn how to use quantum computing library. I like the simulation idea, but still strange to not read more from Huawei & Alibaba on adopting these latest quantum computing firms that China Mobile will be using. Maybe they are keep their progress a secret and they have something better in store, who knows.
Q Boson, eh. I had mentioned them in the forum almost a year ago when they were still in stealth mode. News on China's scientific and technological development.
You need to remember that the origin for a deep tech company are always either from a top university/national research lab or the founding team have one or more great researcher in that field.
There's the basic principle to gauge the potential capability of a deep tech company.
There are at least six pathways to build a quantum computer
- Superconducting circuits
- Photon
- Ion trap
- Cold atom
- Spin
- Topological materials
Beyond this there are few other niche technologies like nitrogen vacancy in diamond etc, but those approaches are more tilted toward quantum sensor instead of quantum computing.
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So, it seems only the US and China are competing vigorously in Quantum computing .. competition is great .. perhaps the US has a slight edge now against China but not much
Other countries are far far behind the two giants in quantum computing