This feeling is like a LV5 "big brother" in the novice village, leading a group of newbies who are less than LV3 to form a team, and ended up destroying the LV10 elite boss.
However, he had a premonition secretly.
At present, Professor Smit is obviously working for Microsoft. There is nothing surprising about this, but there is no news about this in the industry.
This man is none other than the director of the Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center...or rather the former director, Professor Smit.
Looking at the questioning expression on Nadella's face, Professor Smit continued in a tone that left no room for doubt.
"You're looking for me?"
Meanwhile, across the Pacific.
Is this really a bluff
It is precisely because of this that for a time, both academia and industry have different opinions on this achievement claimed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On the first day of April, something big happened in the computer industry.
The quantum computer research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suddenly announced with a high profile that it has made significant progress in the research of quantum computers! The leader of the research team claimed that they have developed a quantum computer processor based on carbon-based semiconductor technology. This processor will be unprecedented and groundbreaking compared to other current research results in the field of quantum computers.
Let alone a paper.
[Funding fraud occurs all over the world, and it’s not just us! Being able to feed 1.5 billion people is already pretty good!]
At this time, the office door opened and a tall, thin man walked in.
The research team only claimed that they had done it, but did not provide any visible results.
Upon hearing this, Nadella raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Yes," Nadella put down the report in his hand, looked at Professor Smit standing at the door, and said, "What do you think of the recent quantum computer of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"
"No one understands the technical route of Majorana fermions better than us. We are at the forefront of the world in this direction. It is simply impossible to achieve 90 qubits with current technology. This is no longer a technical bottleneck. , but a theoretical bottleneck! If they can really do it, then we can at least see how they can solve the problem of quantum entangled state collapse from a theoretical level."
Every choice I make next may affect Microsoft's future in this competition about quantum computers...
If anyone who is engaged in quantum computing research is standing here, they will definitely be surprised.
The quarrel that occurred on the forum is just a microcosm of the discussion on this topic on the entire Internet.
However, what disappoints many people is that apart from that news article, they cannot find a paper about this "90 qubit".
[Hey, it would be great if all of our scientists could be as practical and realistic as Academician Lu.]
Even this research team seems to have jumped out of stone, and many people have never heard of it before. Except for the academic leader who has a little bit of background and has published a few papers in the field of quantum computing, others are struggling to find a few useful papers.
Because the debate was so intense, the forum administrator had no choice but to restrict the topic in order to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.
"The one with 90 qubits?" A hint of mockery appeared on his face. Professor Smit pushed up his glasses and said bluntly, "They are simply living in a dream."
[really! Why are you treating people like fools when you can't even produce results? With 90 qubits, it is still a standard quantum computer using quantum gate circuits. Google's quantum annealing algorithm must be stepped into the dirt. I think most of them are cheating out of funds again!]
"You mean... they're bragging?"
When they saw this news through various channels, many people subconsciously glanced at the calendar and confirmed that today was not the 4th before showing a surprised expression on their faces.
But others can think about it so simply, but Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, dare not take this matter lightly.
After all, it is a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it receives funds from key national scientific research projects. The consequences of falsifying the results may be more serious than having no results at all.
The matter of quantum computers is aroused on the Internet, not only in China, but also in North America.
[What happened to the key scientific research projects? Has it been twenty years since the Hanxin incident? Such a bad memory!]
Is this really going to heaven
After learning about the situation, almost everyone who was engaged in research in related fields, with only a slight touch, began to frantically search for relevant research results in the database.
"That's most likely the case!"
After Professor Smit left, he repeatedly checked the report in his hand almost obsessively, especially the list of members of the research team that his subordinates had spent a lot of effort to collect. , and try to find a familiar name on it.
Similar situations have not happened before. No matter which industry you are in, there are occasionally some stories that become a blockbuster without being famous.
"oh?"
In the Microsoft headquarters building, Nadella was sitting in the CEO's office, frowning and meticulously looking at the report in his hand.
However, even if there are many doubts, not everyone arbitrarily believes that this matter must be false.
In discussions on this topic, many people have made some constructive suggestions.
However, even so, this time it was too abrupt.
This is not a problem that can be solved simply by reducing noise.
When the incident first happened, many scientific research dogs working in the fields of integrated circuit design and information technology research had just finished their weekend vacations and came to their workplaces with sleepy eyes.
If there was such an easy solution, this issue would not proceed so slowly.
[Impossible, this is the research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and I think it is still a national key scientific research project.]
For example, at a recent Internet security summit, experts from the Information Security Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed that the increasingly developing quantum computers may pose a threat to information security and must be dealt with in advance.
A 90-qubit quantum computer!
Similar debates don't just happen on forums in certain universities. From scarves to penguin colonies, it seems that people can be heard discussing this matter everywhere.
So far, the country on the other side of the Pacific has created too many miracles that astounded him.
This metaphor may not be appropriate, but it is definitely vivid enough.
In addition to these lay voices, similar debates also occur in the technical field.
According to relevant sources, the processor mainly applies some characteristics of Majorana fermions, and its performance has so far reached 90 qubits.
Seeing the determined expression on Professor Smit's face, Nadella breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt that he could not completely let go of the worry that was weighing on his heart.
On a forum at a well-known domestic university, the engineering dogs majoring in integrated circuit design almost had their heads broken because of this news.
Most people believe that this matter is most likely an error, or it is a man-made fraud.
What was mentioned repeatedly was exactly what Lu Zhou mentioned in the letter sent to Chang'an Street - changing to a more secure encryption algorithm.
Nadella frowned.
However, even though he checked every letter, he still couldn't find the name that made Silicon Valley talk about it.
But relatively speaking, the voices in these debates are relatively rational and professional, and they mainly focus on practical significance.
[Can you not mention that?]
Looking at the sky outside the office window, Nadella suddenly became undecided.