stopthatgirl7 to Technology • 1 year agoReports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Labthequantuminsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkReports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Labthequantuminsider.comstopthatgirl7 to Technology • 1 year agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company’s quantum laboratory.
minus-squarekeylinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI feel like I’m missing something… Why would one think this was in reference to materials science?
minus-squarepartial_accumenlinkEnglish4•edit-21 year 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”.
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.