Reply to post: So, still not really got an actual programmable architecture then?

Look! Over there! Intel's cooked a 17-qubit chip quantum package

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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So, still not really got an actual programmable architecture then?

Looking over the Wiki entry on this that's can test 2^17 states simultaneously.

If the wiki article is correct then "programming" a quantum m/c is more like the programming of an FPGA than anything else, where you have a quantum gate array" whose connectivity map is the "program"

Interesting side note in the article that the first go at this used "spin" as a parameter and actually dates from 1968 !

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