Announced a major breakthrough in its quantum computing project, IBM has run a real-time error-correction algorithm on gear built by marking a significant stride toward commercialising quantum systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD).
Originally created by IBM earlier this year, the algorithm was run on AMD’s field-programmable gate array (FPGA) gear. IBM claims the algorithm ran at around ten times the performance needed for actual error correction on quantum systems. The cooperation builds on the two companies’ proclaimed cooperation to create hybrid systems blending quantum processing with classical high-performance computing. Still a field of promise and difficulty, quantum computing’s fundamental units, qubits, are quite vulnerable to decoherence and error, therefore permanently stopping large-scale real-world implementation.
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All told, the IBM-AMD success denotes a critical point in the quantum computing
