Rumors of a quantum technology breakthrough were confirmed last month with the release of a report by Google's AI Quantum team, University of California, and others. Quantum computing, a complex technology that had been predicted to take years to come to market, suddenly gained urgency thanks to this breakthrough.
Quantum computing is a complicated concept but, in simple terms, it's a way of encoding and correlating information at massive scale. Achieving quantum computing will change the way the world communicates as well as how it manages and protects data — it's an advancement that will radically change the cybersecurity landscape.
Quantum supremacy or true quantum computing is best demonstrated by running a mathematical algorithm that a classical computer would take years to complete. In its report, Google claims that the research team ran an algorithm that would take a classical computer 10,000 years to complete with 30 seconds of quantum processing time. If proven to be true, it's a strong indication that we are getting much closer to quantum computing becoming a reality rather than a theoretical possibility.
Even if this figure is disproven — IBM immediately refuted the "10,000 years" figure with an estimate of 2.55 days — it's just a matter of time. Since the cost of classical computation roughly doubles for every qubit added, IBM's own extrapolation indicates that with just six more qubits, it would take the classical computer over a year. Advancements pioneered by Google and others make the arrival of 60-qubit machines inevitable, and, regardl ..
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