stopthatgirl7 to Technology • 10 months agoReports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Labthequantuminsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down11file-text
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Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company’s quantum laboratory.
minus-squarepartial_accumenlinkEnglish27•10 months agoFor other reading and looking for context, this is a quantum computing operation, not a materials science research.
minus-squarekeylinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoI feel like I’m missing something… Why would one think this was in reference to materials science?
minus-squarepartial_accumenlinkEnglish4•edit-210 months agoQuantum tunneling is the cause of one of the current speed limits in CPU design in higher performance computing. As transistors and other semiconductor devices continue to shrink to sizes of atoms, we enter the realm of the quantum world. Here, we encounter an increasingly significant phenomenon known as “quantum tunneling”.
For other reading and looking for context, this is a quantum computing operation, not a materials science research.
I feel like I’m missing something… Why would one think this was in reference to materials science?
Quantum tunneling is the cause of one of the current speed limits in CPU design in higher performance computing.
As transistors and other semiconductor devices continue to shrink to sizes of atoms, we enter the realm of the quantum world. Here, we encounter an increasingly significant phenomenon known as “quantum tunneling”.Because Alibaba, ships a lot of things.