[Chapter 285: Wall Street Goes Crazy Again]
The next moment, the audience ushered in a low outcry, and some whispers appeared frequently, especially practitioners in the computer field, all of whom were shocked.
"Before announcing the rest of the news, please allow D-Wave to share that exciting moment with the world!" Braunel smiled and said slowly. As soon as the words fell, a video was released at the press conference, which was a scene that happened in the laboratory.
“Oh-My-God!! Oh-My-God!! Oh-My-God……”
"Oh my God, 75%...... 79%…… 83%…… It has reached more than 80% of the peak of the theoretical operation, and it is not the end of the sky! ”
"This is the first quantum computer in the true sense of the word!"
"This is a historic moment, and this is a moment to be remembered by the whole world!"
The reporters and computer practitioners present watched the scenes of the video content, and everyone in the video was so excited and incoherent that they couldn't suppress the emotions in their hearts.
As the video ends, it's finally frozen on a progress bar that shows: 96%!
There was an uproar, warm applause began to resound, and almost all of the people who came to the press conference were human elite groups, and no one did not know how significant the birth of quantum computers was to the entire human race.
One Western journalist even wanted to shout that China is finally ahead of China in the field of cutting-edge technology.
Yes, he has this kind of idea, which may have been inconceivable in the past, but today, it is not surprising that a Chinese technology company called "Matrix Technology XlouS" is crazy every once in a while in the technology sector.
But he held back because one of the people sitting at the press conference told him that this was not the result of D-Wave's independence.
At this moment, the reporter couldn't help but hate Zhang Han's existence a little, if he didn't appear here, it would mean that this was an achievement that belonged to the West alone, a great achievement.
But one way or another, this is a historic moment for humanity.
D-Wave's launch today is a bit different from usual, but in the form of announcing one content and answering another.
"Hello, Fern. Mr. Brunell, I'm Reuters reporter Krell. If quantum computers are successfully commercialized, the powerful functions of quantum computers will directly disintegrate the existing information security system in the short term, and the current RSA algorithm will be insecure and vulnerable in the face of quantum computers. All privacy will be cracked in the simplest brute force method, and the birth of quantum computers will bear the brunt of the test in the field of information security. What are your thoughts on this? ”
There is no doubt that in today's world, this problem cannot be ignored at all, and it may take ten or a hundred years to crack a high-end encrypted information on a traditional computer. But in front of a quantum computer, it may be easily deciphered in a second or even less, and it is the simplest and most crude way to crack it, because his computing speed is too terrible, and the computing speed of the quantum computer in the video just now is 9 times higher than the computing speed of all conventional computers and supercomputers in the world combined.
There is no doubt that conventional computers will always be able to match peak computing.
This means that when quantum computers are born, those units and institutions that rely heavily on information security as a cornerstone will be affected, including national governments, the military, banks, e-commerce, and so on. In particular, the Internet, although it has been a fairly complete system under decades of development, the most important of which is undoubtedly the information security guarantee system, but in the face of quantum computers, the so-called security will be vulnerable.
Obviously, without reliable new algorithms or security systems, the birth of quantum computers will be a disaster, and the government will definitely regulate it, and even if the application is limited to national security and military information systems, it is impossible to popularize civilian use.
This first problem is so serious, and it is also a fact that has to be faced, obviously, since it is chosen to be announced today, there must be a way to solve it, and everyone is quietly watching, waiting for the official reply.
Just after the question was raised, Zhang Han took the microphone, pondered for a moment, looked at the Reuters reporter, and responded: "You are right, this concern is real and cannot be ignored." The parallel computing power of quantum computers makes it possible for all algorithms of current conventional computers to be quickly brute-force cracked in an acceptable time. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Han said to everyone: "But quantum computing technology itself is the best means of encryption, we all know that the use of quantum technology for communication can make the information unreadable in the process of transmission, and once it is read, it will destroy the content of the information itself in transmission, which also means that the cracking method cannot be effectively carried out at all." So the problem is not unsolvable, on the contrary, the problem is not a problem. ”
Zhang Han joked: "Conventional computers are compared to children, quantum computers are compared to adults, children will definitely not be able to beat adults, one reason, when both are adults, it is different." ”
"That's right!" Vern. Braunel took over the conversation after Zhang Han finished answering, and said: "Any technology has both positive and negative sides, but it is not unsolvable. The significance of quantum computers to human beings is self-evident, and it will become a powerful driving force for the development of human science, and play a strong role in promoting the development of a series of natural sciences such as scientific theory verification, climate prediction, artificial intelligence, marine disciplines, geological research, natural disasters, and space exploration. We cannot completely negate positive effects because of possible negative effects. ”
At the end of the announcement and response to the first message, Braunel began to announce the second message, "XlouS and D-Wave officially announced that they will reach a deal of up to $60 billion, and D-Wave will build the world's first super quantum computer for XlouS!" ”
The audience was stunned for a while, the 60 billion sky-high transaction is just to build a super quantum computer? What does Matrix Technology do? What needs such an exaggerated computer? Quantum computers are already exaggerated enough that they are not yet satisfied?
At the same time, Wall Street responded on the spot, and when the first news was announced, D-Wave's stock price began to soar in a U-shaped curve, and just after the second news was announced, D-Wave's stock price showed a geometric speed without warning, and the company's market value has risen from the initial $8.9 billion to $15 billion, and now it has soared to $87 billion.
(To be continued) (To be continued.) )