Intel proved its credentials as a jack of all trades at CES 2018 during CEO Brian Krzanich’s keynote speech last night. After leading with the news that the company will fix all Meltdown vulnerabilities by the end of the month, Krzanich launched into a far-reaching talk which covered driverless cars, self-learning AI chips and virtual reality.
But the main event was a “major breakthrough” in quantum computing, with the company announcing a 49-qubit quantum chip – something Krzanich described as the next step to “quantum supremacy”. The company, he said, is committed to forwarding the cause of quantum computing with a lab in Holland dedicated to working on the quantum computers of tomorrow.
While there is no timeline details on the quantum chip – codenamed Tangle Lake – Krzanich was clear that this nascent technology could one day help solve the biggest problems humanity faces, taking minutes to solve problems that our current supercomputers take months or years to calculate, including drug development and climate modelling.
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