By https://www.techradar.com/author/keumars-afifi-sabet
Publication Date: 2026-10-01 22:00:00
Although AI has sucked up all the bandwidth of public discourse across the tech industry, quantum computing is arguably just as revolutionary a technology – but remains dormant for now. That said, key breakthroughs in the last couple of years are said to mean that these machines could be ‘useful’ before too long.
“We are now in a stage where we can do certain calculations with these systems that would take the biggest supercomputers in the world to be able to do some similar calculation. But the beauty of it, is that we see that we’re gonna continue to expand that capability, such that not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines.”
Quantum advantage
IBM’s senior vice president and director of research Dario Gil explained to CBS’ 60 Minutes exactly what the likely impact of useful quantum computers would be.
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