More supposition than superposition as local media goes on Sci-Fi journey:
Quantum computers have started rolling off the production line in China, according to local media reports.
Global Times offers one of many such accounts and China Television has also covered the news.
None of the reports offer concrete detail. Indeed, many open with a reference to the presence of a quantum computer in the recently released Chinese action blockbuster "Wandering Earth 2" then enthuse about that science fiction vision having become reality.
All report that the computer was produced in the city of Hefei, which is in Anhui province where the local government is known to have funded a quantum computer lab. Some quote an outfit called Origin Quantum as having been informed of the debut by Anhui quantum lab.
Others suggest the computers were quietly slipped into production at Chinese organizations in 2021 and are now available for other buyers.
[...] In the real world, meanwhile, analysts suggest one of China's main interests in quantum computers is breaking classical encryption.
China has lots of big challenges that quantum computing could help to address. It also has enormous military ambitions, and a lengthy track record of using technology to surveil and oppress its citizens.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 04, @12:01AM (4 children)
If that were true, China would have stopped all industrial espionage, spying on our government, and trying to tap our internet infrastructure, not to mention chasing after military secrets. A genuine quantum computer or six could effortlessly hack into everything we have.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday February 04, @03:45AM
What makes you think she does not?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04, @04:58AM
Not only that, with their new computational prowess they would be dominating scientific and mathematical endeavors. Wake me up when that happens.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 04, @09:43AM
How exactly do you think they get the information to decrypt using the quantum computer? I mean, the US government surely doesn't send their encrypted secrets through China.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by mcgrew on Saturday February 04, @05:50PM
China is the only entity who lies more than Donald Trump and George Santos, whose ethic seems to be "always lie, even when the truth will serve you better".
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 04, @12:13AM (4 children)
Judging from the summary it should have read "A news program in China claims that China is churning out quantum computers", but it's my guess that even that's an overstatement. Would you be surprised if the "Weekly World News" made a claim like that about someone/something?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday February 04, @06:59AM (1 child)
China's Origin Quantum Delivers a Commercial 24-Qubit Quantum Computer [tomshardware.com]
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 04, @02:12PM
OK, that *could* be lots of things. To me it sounds like a D-Wave variant. And it doesn't justify the hyperbole of the summary. (OTOH, it's a LOT more believable.)
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday February 04, @09:38AM (1 child)
I'm pretty sure it's true, I've seen the for sale on Aliexpress for a year or two now, along with 10,000,000 lumen AA-powered flashlights, 100MW solar panels, and free energy generators. Ah, those enterprising Chinese.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday February 04, @04:03PM
Well yeah, but thing is _normally_ when the Chinese make stuff cheap and high volume you have to wait until you've actually opened the box to see if it's DOA or not.
Now with this... oh wait...
(Score: 5, Funny) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Saturday February 04, @12:30AM
That look and act like hot air balloons.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Saturday February 04, @02:54AM
D-Wave has been producing their "it's a quantum computer but you can only use it for this one very specific task" for years. I wouldn't start shitting bricks about all our encryption being broken just yet.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by nostyle on Saturday February 04, @03:42AM
Call me when a quantum computer can run javascript.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Saturday February 04, @05:39PM (1 child)
As soon as we check to see if they're producing computers or not, we'll know.
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday February 05, @12:33PM
In the meantime, they both are and are not producing quantum computers.