IBM’s Quantum Algorithm Takes a Milestone in Commercialization of AMD Chips_News Channel_China.com
In early U.S. stock trading Friday, AMD’s stock price rose more than 7%, hitting a high of $253.07 per share, setting a new intraday high on Monday. IBM’s stock price also rose more than 9%, reaching a high of $310.75 per share, setting an all-time high.
IBM executives said the company successfully ran key quantum computing error-correcting algorithms on conventional chips produced by AMD, marking an important step on the path to commercializing quantum supercomputers. Jay Gambetta, director of IBM’s research department, said in an interview that this result shows that IBM’s algorithm can not only work in the real world, but also work on commercially available AMD chips, and that these chips are reasonably priced. More importantly, the measured performance is up to 10 times faster than the theoretical requirements, which is of great importance.
In June of this year, IBM announced that it had developed a set of algorithms that could be used with quantum chips to correct these errors. A forthcoming research paper shows that IBM demonstrated that the algorithm can run in real time on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip made by AMD. FPGA is a programmable logic chip that can be arbitrarily programmed to achieve various logic processing functions.
IBM is advancing a multi-year plan to build a quantum computer called “Starling” by 2029. Research on the algorithm revealed this time was completed a year ahead of schedule. Currently, IBM is competing with tech giants such as Microsoft and Google to conquer quantum computing technology. Earlier this week, Google published an article in Nature magazine stating that it had implemented the first verifiable quantum advantage algorithm on the “Willow” chip.
