What is the main difference between common Intel CPUs and the quantum computer?
Or since Google is publicly owned, is this sci-fi sounding news possibly a stock price manipulation stunt?
>What is the main difference between common Intel CPUs and the quantum computer?
Well, I can say this...it’s not recursion in a loop.
Funny you should ask, because I have always noted that since the transistor, all our computational devices are rooted in QM, meaning that their design and fabrication is all according to quantum theory.
The so called quantum computer claims to use the parameters of quantum theory itself, that is quantum "amplitudes", as the parameters in the computational algorithm, and this is something altogether different.
In this sense the quantum computer is an ANALOG computer. ANALOG, in its original sense means that the computational device emulates the laws governing the problem being solved, and I believe this holds true for these putative quantum computers. They do not represent an alternative to digital computation as we practice it.