{"id":201520,"date":"2017-03-06T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201520"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:28:40","slug":"ibms-plan-for-first-commercial-quantum-computer-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/201520-ibms-plan-for-first-commercial-quantum-computer-system.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s plan for first commercial quantum computer system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM will\u00a0build a commercial universal quantum computing system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBM Q\u201d quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen, because&#8230; the possibilities you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to be processed by classical computers,&#8221; said IBM.<\/p>\n<p>The power of a quantum computer will be expressed by the \u201cQuantum Volume\u201d, which includes the number of qubits, quality of quantum operations, qubit connectivity, and parallelism.<\/p>\n<p>IBM said it aims\u00a0to\u00a0construct commercial IBM Q systems with around 50 qubits in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>It also plans to collaborate with partners to develop applications that exploit the quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>IBM said future applications of quantum computing may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drug and materials discovery<\/li>\n<li>Supply chain and logistics<\/li>\n<li>Financial services<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Cloud security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuC-9e8hfi0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qarc7AA4-wM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5faqB9YLS_8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/201186-ibm-patents-the-out-of-office-email.html\">IBM patents the &#8220;out of office&#8221; email<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced an initiative to build a commercial universal quantum computing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24576,41768],"class_list":["post-201520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-ibm-international-business-machines","tag-ibm-q"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201576,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201520\/revisions\/201576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}