Intel jumps into the field of quantum processors | | | | Turtles AI

  A few days ago, #Intel, a giant in the world of #CPUs, announced a new #product, Tunnel Falls, the first #quantum #processor unveiled by Intel. Tunnel Falls represents all the progress Intel has made in the last few years in this field and brings with it hope and a real project that aims to make quantum processors more powerful and common. This tool manages to encapsulate as many as 12 Qubits; this figure is not particularly high, we have seen supercomputers equipped with hundreds of Qubits, however, these have one very important feature, they are based on a silicon architecture. This is anomalous since currently existing quantum supercomputers base their structure not on such a common and simple element, but on superconductors. The latter allows for simpler error correction. Intel, on the other hand, is aiming for a different strategy; thanks to its complex infrastructure for the production of traditional silicon chips, it can produce quantum processors itself, allowing it to go and shorten the time considerably; Jim Clarke, the project director, said that quantum processors at one million qubits are planned for the first half of the next decade. These kinds of solutions will enable neural networks to be processed differently shortly and can complement the current method of making AI increasingly effective.   Qubit: A qubit, also known as a quantum bit, is a quantum system's fundamental unit of information. Unlike classical bits, which can have only two values (0 or 1), qubits can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum superposition. Quantum superposition allows a qubit to be in states 0 and 1 simultaneously, represented mathematically as a linear combination of the two states: α|0⟩ + β|1⟩, where α and β are complex numbers describing the probability amplitude of each state. When a qubit is measured, only one of the two states will be observed with a certain probability determined by the probability amplitudes. Qubits are the fundamental components of quantum computers and enable quantum computing, which can solve specific problems much more efficiently than classical computers.