It is a record in the world of quantum computers.
A feat that is difficult to understand for non-specialists.
The new computer from the Canadian group D-Wave Systems, called Advantage, contains no less than 5,000 qubits.
No other machine has so many qubits.
Each qubit is like the transistor of the new computer's compute chip.
But instead of taking the value 0 or 1 as in a classical computer, each qubit can take all the possible values between 0 and 1 and sometimes even be equal to both 0 and 1!
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Quantum computers should eventually solve problems inaccessible to conventional computers, such as the simulation of road transport, the modeling of molecules or the optimization of complex processes.
Even though the number of qubits has increased from 2000 for the previous machine to 5000 now, it is not possible to say that its performance has increased by 2.5 times.
But even if the number of qubits fell from 2000 for the previous one
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