China’s Third-Generation Quantum Computer Comes Online (2024)

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Where China's 3rd gen superconducting quantum computer goes into operation? ›

HEFEI - Origin Wukong, China's independently developed third-generation superconducting quantum computer, went into operation on Saturday at Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Hefei) Co Ltd in East China's Anhui province. The quantum computer is powered by Wukong, a 72-qubit indigenous superconducting quantum chip.

China Telecom, one of the state-backed telecom operators, is partnering with QuantumCTek to develop a quantum computer using the new Xiaohong chip.39 This quantum computer will be accessible through a cloud platform developed by China Telecom's Quantum Group, allowing researchers across various fields to efficiently ...

When China launched its Jiuzhang quantum computer in 2020, it claimed it was the world's fastest — reportedly surpassing Google's Sycamore supercomputer by 10 billion times.

In January, Origin Quantum Computing Technology reported that the majority of its overseas users were based in the U.S. Industry analysis backs this observation. In 2022, research and analysis company GlobalData said China was five years behind the U.S. in quantum technologies.

The United States has long been a leader in technological innovation, and quantum computing is no exception. Major advancements have been driven by private-sector investment, academic research, and government support.

Quantum computers are being manufactured and used. But they cannot yet make the large-scale calculations that are expected to be possible in the future. You may be one of those waiting for the quantum computer, the arrival of which we have been told is imminent for several years.

In 2019, Google reported that its 53-qubit Sycamore processor had completed in 3.3 minutes a task that would have taken a traditional supercomputer at least 2.5 days. Last October, China's 66-qubit Zuchongzhi 2 quantum processor reportedly completed the same task 1 million times faster.

Pan Jianwei, a leading physicist who built the world's first quantum satellite, is among “over 90 exceptional researchers from across the world” to be named this year by the society, or Britain's national academy of sciences.

Two of the most powerful quantum computers in the world to date now both come from China, and new experiments with them re-ignite the controversy over what kinds of problems might be quantum computationally solvable that couldn't begin to be solved by a conventional supercomputer.

China leads US in key emerging technologies

ASPI tracked the most-cited scientific papers, which it said are the most likely to result in patents. The Western democracies are getting left behind in research output, in defence, space, energy and biotechnology.

Which country is the leader in quantum computing? ›

America is the undisputed world leader in quantum computing even though China spends 8x more on the technology–but an own goal could soon erode U.S. dominance. China has earmarked at least $15 billion to develop its quantum computing capabilities.

Pan Jianwei has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society in London. Pan is often referred to as China's “father of quantum” and is co-founder of QuantumCTek.

These are just a few of the possibilities that may be enabled by quantum computing, which harnesses the laws of physics to perform calculations much faster than even the most powerful traditional computers. They all hinge on research here in the United States, the world's undisputed leader in quantum computing.

China imports Integrated Circuits primarily from: Chinese Taipei ($57.5B), China ($51B), South Korea ($50.3B), Singapore ($15B), and Malaysia ($12.5B).

The Chinese team, based primarily at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, reported their quantum computer, named Jiuzhang, is 10 billion times faster than Google's. A description of Jiuzhang and its feat of calculation was published Dec. 3 in the journal Science.

The Chinese semiconductor industry relies heavily on TSMC. In the first half of 2022 alone, China imported ICs from Taiwan (China), with a total value of USD 79.4 billion, accounting for almost 38% of the country's total such imports during the period.