Google's qubit rivals: The race to useful quantum computers has begun

Date28th, Oct 2019

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Google recently claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy, but many companies are still hoping their own quantum computers will soon overtake Google's

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Technology 28 October 2019
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Google’s claim to quantum supremacy is far from the end of the road. The firm has just edged in front, but there are still plenty of chicanes, banks and ditches to halt the competitors in the race to build the first truly useful quantum computer.

As well as Google, research groups at IBM, Intel and Microsoft, as well as a slew of start-ups, are all developing quantum computers. And the competition is heating up. IBM has said that Google’s claims of quantum supremacy aren’t …

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