On the first day of April, a major event happened in the computer industry.
The quantum computer research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences suddenly announced that they had made significant progress in the research of quantum computers! The person in charge of the research team claimed that they had developed a quantum computer processor based on carbon-based semiconductor technology. This processor was unprecedented and groundbreaking compared to other research results in the field of quantum computers.
According to relevant people, the processor mainly applied some of the characteristics of Majorana fermions. So far, the performance shown had reached 90 qubits.
When this happened, many scientific researchers who were engaged in integrated circuit design and information technology research had just finished their weekend vacation. They came to work with sleepy eyes.
When they saw this news through various channels, many people subconsciously glanced at the calendar. After confirming that today wasn't the 4th, they had a surprised look on their faces.
A 90-qubit quantum computer!
Is this f * cking insane?
After learning about the situation, almost everyone who was engaged in research in related fields began to frantically search for relevant research results in the database.
However, to the disappointment of many people, other than that news article, they couldn't find another paper about this "90 qubit".
They couldn't even find a paper.
Even this research team seemed to have popped out of nowhere. Many people had never heard of them before. Other than the academic leader, who had published a few papers in the field of quantum computing, everyone else was desperate to find a few good papers.
This feeling was like a LV5 "Big Brother" in a newbie village, leading a group of noobs who were not even LV3 to form a party, and in the end, they killed a LV10 elite boss.
This metaphor might not be appropriate, but it was definitely realistic.
Similar situations had happened before. No matter what field one was in, there would occasionally be some amazing stories.
However, even so, this time it was too sudden.
The research team only claimed that they had done it, but they didn't show any tangible results.
However, even though there were many doubtful points, not everyone arbitrarily believed that this matter was definitely fake.
After all, this was a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and they were funded by a national key scientific research project. The consequences of falsifying the results might be more serious than not producing any results at all.
Because of this, whether it was the academic community or the industry, there were many different opinions about this achievement.
On the forum of a well-known university in China, the engineers who majored in integrated circuit design had almost broken their heads because of this news.
[It must be fake! He couldn't even produce results. Did he think he was a fool? A standard quantum computer with 90 qubits using quantum gate circuits. Google's quantum annealing algorithm would be crushed to the ground. I think it's another scam!]
[That's impossible. This is a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I think it's a national key research project.]
[So what if it's a key research project? Hasn't it been 20 years since the Hanxin incident? What a terrible memory!]
[Can you not mention that?]
[Sigh, if only our scientists could be as realistic as Academician Lu.]
[Fraud happens all over the world, not just us! It's good enough to feed 1.5 billion people!]
Because the debate was too intense, in order to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control, the forum administrator had no choice but to start restricting the topic.
The argument on the forum was only a microcosm of this topic on the Internet.
Similar debates didn't only happen on a certain university's forum. From Weibo to Penguin, people could be seen talking about this matter everywhere.
In addition to these laymen's voices, similar debates were happening in the technology field.
However, relatively speaking, these voices were more rational and professional. They were mainly focused on practical issues.
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 developed quantum computer could pose a threat to information security and that countermeasures must be taken in advance.
In the discussion on this topic, many people put forward some constructive suggestions.
The suggestion that was repeatedly mentioned was the more secure encryption algorithm mentioned in the letter that Lu Zhou sent to Chang 'an Avenue.
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Inside the Microsoft headquarters. Nadella sat in the CEO's office. He was meticulously reading the report in his hand.
The quantum computer incident was a hot topic on the Internet. Not only in China, but it was also being discussed in North America.
Most people thought that this matter was most likely a mistake, or that it was faked by someone.
However, as the CEO of Microsoft, Nadella didn't dare to take this matter lightly.
So far, the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean had created too many miracles that left him dumbfounded.
Suddenly, the office door opened, and a tall and thin man walked in.
If someone in the field of quantum computing were here, they would be surprised.
This man was none other than the director of the Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center … or rather, the former director, Professor Smith.
From the looks of it, Professor Smith was working for Microsoft. There was nothing strange about this, but there was no news about this in the industry.
"You're looking for me?"
"Yeah." Nadella put down the report in his hand and looked at Professor Smith, who was standing at the door. He said, "What do you think about the quantum computer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"
"The one with 90 qubits?" A hint of mockery appeared on Professor Smith's face. He pushed his glasses and said, "They're living in a dream."
Hearing this sentence, Nadra's eyebrows slightly raised upwards.
"Oh?"
Professor Smith looked at Nadella and spoke in an unquestionable tone.
"No one knows the Majorana fermion technology better than us. We are at the forefront of this field. With current technology, it is impossible to achieve 90 qubits. This is not a technical bottleneck, but a theoretical bottleneck! If they can really do it, then we can at least see how they solve the quantum entanglement collapse problem from a theoretical level. "
This wasn't a problem that could be solved by simply reducing the noise.
If it were that easy to solve, this research project wouldn't have taken so long.
Nadella frowned.
"You're saying … they're bragging?"
"That's probably the case!"
Nadella looked at the confident look on Professor Smith's face. Although he was relieved, he couldn't completely let go of the worry in his heart.
After Professor Smith left, he repeatedly checked the report in his hand. He especially checked the list of the members of the research team that his subordinates spent a lot of effort to collect. He tried to find a familiar name on it.
However, no matter how hard he checked, he couldn't find the name that shocked Silicon Valley.
Is this really just a bluff?
Nadella looked at the sky outside the office window and suddenly felt uncertain.
However, he had a premonition in the dark.
Every decision he made next could affect the future of Microsoft in this quantum computer race …
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