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CHINA ACHIEVES QUANTUM SUPREMACY CLAIM WITH NEW CHIP 1 QUADRILLION TIMES FASTER THAN THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTERS
The new prototype 105-qubit chip, dubbed “Zuchongzhi 3.0,” which uses superconducting qubits, represents a significant step forward for quantum computing, scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei said. It rivals the benchmarking results set by Google’s latest Willow QPU in December 2024 that allowed scientists to stake a claim for quantum supremacy — where quantum computers are more capable than the fastest supercomputers — in lab-based benchmarking.
The scientists used the processor to complete a task on the widely used quantum computing random circuit sampling (RSC) benchmark in just a few hundred seconds, they said in a new study published March 3 in the journal Physical Review Letters. This test, 83-qubit, 32-layer random circuit sampling task, was also completed 1 million times faster than the result set by Google’s previous generation Sycamore chip, published in October 2024. Frontier, the second-fastest supercomputer in the world, would only be able to complete the same task in 5.9 billion years, by contrast.
CHINA ACHIEVES QUANTUM SUPREMACY CLAIM WITH NEW CHIP 1 QUADRILLION TIMES FASTER THAN THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTERS
The new prototype 105-qubit chip, dubbed “Zuchongzhi 3.0,” which uses superconducting qubits, represents a significant step forward for quantum computing, scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei said. It rivals the benchmarking results set by Google’s latest Willow QPU in December 2024 that allowed scientists to stake a claim for quantum supremacy — where quantum computers are more capable than the fastest supercomputers — in lab-based benchmarking.
The scientists used the processor to complete a task on the widely used quantum computing random circuit sampling (RSC) benchmark in just a few hundred seconds, they said in a new study published March 3 in the journal Physical Review Letters. This test, 83-qubit, 32-layer random circuit sampling task, was also completed 1 million times faster than the result set by Google’s previous generation Sycamore chip, published in October 2024. Frontier, the second-fastest supercomputer in the world, would only be able to complete the same task in 5.9 billion years, by contrast.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/china-achieves-quantum-supremacy-claim-with-new-chip-1-quadrillion-times-faster-than-the-most-powerful-supercomputers
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