Quantom computing promises warp speeds. I don't think or rather I should say, I don't feel it's a hype (I don't have expertise on the subject to think hence I'll go by what I feel). There is a whole lot of science behind Quantum Mechanics and I personally love the concept. The qubits, their superpositions and entanglements may change the way we look at computing speeds. Human inventions and discoveries have always broken the conventional boundaries.
(Friends - am I sounding too brainy here? Well, I'm trying to be :) Refer to links mentioned at the end of this post.)
Anyway, today's news is not encouraging though. Google's quantum computer - D-Wave 2 system (so called world's first commercially available quantum computer) has failed the test. D-Wave 2 is developed by a Canada based company in collaboration with NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). A quantum computer can operate at an astonishing speed solving mind-boggling complex problems that may take classical computing systems years to solve. The commercial applications of quantum computer is aplenty and Google's interest and investment into this project is due to it's 'Machine Learning' abilities. The anticipated 'quantum speedup' is not evidenced through today's tests though and results are not encouraging.
Nevertheless, hopes are high and as someone has said - Failure is success if we learn from it. I'm looking forward to computing at the warp speed.
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