Chapter 329: The Quantum Dilemma

September 1.

Keelung, one of the two core cities of the Galaxy Consortium, Huang Haojie likes the name Keelung more than Taipei, and the meaning of the place where the foundation is prosperous is more far-reaching.

Ziwei Beppu is the residence of the Huang family in Keelung, and it is also one of the main residences of Huang Haojie to come to East Island.

Huang Haojie has now officially retreated into the background, and his whereabouts are uncertain, he often uses bionic robots to appear in various groups, but which one is the real body, except for Zhong and his wife Guo Ting, no one else knows.

Underneath Ziwei Beppu, there is also a secret research institute with a huge space.

Looking at the quantum chip in his hand, Huang Haojie frowned: "Zhong, record the results of the experiment and destroy these failed products." ”

[Okay, master!] ]

More than a dozen robots acting as Huang Haojie's assistants, under Zhong's command, methodically cleaned up the laboratory.

He sat in a chair with one hand on his head, quietly looking at the data and technology on the holographic display, the difficulty of the quantum chip was beyond his imagination.

Don't look at Brother Gu, micro hard, and even domestic research institutes have announced their own quantum chip progress, how many qubits to break through today, how many qubits to break through tomorrow, in fact, these are laboratory products, and they do not have the practicability of large-scale promotion at all.

Moreover, the current quantum chips cannot completely replace traditional electronic chips, and quantum chip technology is still far from us, and it will take at least 10 years to realize the commercialization of semiconductor quantum computing.

At present, among the institutions in the world that have made certain achievements in the research of quantum chip technology, they are: the digital annealer quantum (Digital Annealer) computing chip of Fujitsu, the IT giant of the Sun Kingdom, and Intel's silicon spin qubit (silicon spin qubit) technology, and Dongtangsan quantum dot semiconductor technology.

Quantum computing is important because of its ability to quickly solve "human-scale" problems that were difficult to solve with traditional computing architectures in the past.

For example, finding a cure for cancer, better personalized medical treatment, not only in the energy sector, the most popular AI simulations at the moment, and even uncovering the secrets of more universes, will play an extremely important role.

Quantum physical phenomena, which are the basis of quantum computing, are actually universal physical phenomena in nature and appear in many different materials, chemicals, or natural environments.

Therefore, there is more than one way to achieve this, just as the research scope of quantum computing has advanced from superconducting quanta to optical quanta, and even semiconductor quanta based on digital annealing technology have been mass-produced.

In other words, as long as the phenomena caused by the material can be observed with quantum physical characteristics, it is possible to calculate them.

However, after nearly 20 years of development, the commercial pace of quantum computing with superconducting technology as the core is still very limited in practical application when the software ecosystem is not mature enough and mass production is extremely difficult.

Although it is predicted from the current scale of qubits that the quantum supremacy will be in the hands of whom, in fact, the biggest limitation of quantum computing is not the lack of computing power, but the difficulty of popularization, which makes it difficult for ecological development to move forward effectively.

Because of the limitations of current quantum computing, if the existing semiconductor production technology can be used to solve the problem of scale expansion and mass production of quantum computing chips.

Then, quantum chips may be able to enter general computing applications earlier than expected, and accelerate the maturity of related ecosystems, becoming the computing core of PCs, smart homes, automobiles, and even various connected devices, and completely changing human life.

In fact, Galaxy Technology's superconducting quantum chips are close to the practical stage, after all, Galaxy Technology has a room-temperature superconductor, which can get rid of the huge cooling architecture required by superconducting quantum chips.

But close to practicality means that it is not really ready to be put into use.

Huang Haojie and Galaxy Technology's Institute of Quantum Computers have been thinking about how to smoothly transition electronic computers to quantum computers.

At present, most of the quantum computers produced by Galaxy Technology are used in the field of scientific research, and without a complete ecology, quantum computers are really difficult to be accepted by the public.

After all, the performance of electronic computers is already very powerful, and the performance of personal mobile terminals or computers has obvious overperformance.

The superconducting electronic computer used by Galaxy Technology itself is even more powerful, so in the civilian field, the demand for quantum chips is very small.

However, in line with the idea of technical reserves, Galaxy Technology has invested huge efforts in the research and development of quantum chips, and at present, quantum chips can integrate about 6 million qubits.

This level of quantum chip technology is already unique in the world, you must know that Intel has only integrated 1024 qubits at present, and the two are not at the same level at all.

And Galaxy Technology does not bother to publish papers all day long, or declare any quantum hegemony, and the outside world is in the cloud about all kinds of technologies of Galaxy Technology.

After all, the scientific researchers of Galaxy Technology, even if they publish papers and the like, the practical technology is generally sent to internal journals, and some theoretical papers are sent to Galaxy Science journals.

Even if it is a galaxy science journal, this journal is only a Chinese journal, and there is no foreign language version, which is really unfriendly to many foreign scholars.

But Galaxy Technology doesn't care about this, I can understand it myself, as for people in other countries who can't understand it, it's my business!

Therefore, in order to understand the scientific and technological information of Galaxy Technology, countries such as Mi Lijia have to hire a large number of people who can use Chinese to translate these papers.

At present, the quantum computer research institute of Galaxy Technology is working on the improvement of the quantum computer ecology and how to realize the seamless connection between electronic computers and quantum computers.

Huang Haojie is now working on the general communication problem of electronic computers and quantum computers, and his idea is similar to a transcoder (data exchanger), and then a limiter or something like that.

The data exchanger can realize the interaction between quantum data and electronic data, and the role of the limiter is to prevent the powerful quantum computer from being unable to withstand the electronic computer in the process of data exchange, because of the excessive exchange, which may cause the electronic computer to jam or crash.

But it is this data exchanger that makes Huang Haojie and the Institute of Quantum Computers helpless, not that it can't be done, but the volume after making it is very large, and the cost is also very high.

The cost performance is too low, and it is not suitable for promotion in the civilian field at all, and now we can only slowly find a way to reduce the volume and cost of the data exchanger, otherwise there is no need to consider the civil use.

[Master!] 18:20 You still need to attend a small banquet, don't forget! ]

Huang Haojie looked at the time and found that it was already 5:11 in the evening.

"Help me get hot water and a casual outfit."

[Good right away.] ]

Take the elevator back to the ground, and the hot water and clothes in Ziwei Beppu are ready.

After Huang Haojie took a shower, changed into casual clothes, and walked to the living room in front.