Industrial giant Honeywell says it’s built the world’s best quantum computer

www.technologyreview.com MIT ^ | March 3, 2020 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Tech Ping!................

[dp0622]

Honeywell’s quantum computer uses a different technology, called ion traps, which hold ions—the computer’s qubits—in place with electromagnetic fields...

If anyone doesn’t understand this don’t even bother to post to me again.

Why a 5 year old child could understand it.

Now let me go find a 5 year old child... :)

[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

[CondorFlight]

I don’t understand it, but I’ll buy one when they get the price down.

[AFreeBird]

Ya know, the quantum computer was Noah’s Ark. It was built using qubits.

[PIF]

Have they caught up to the Chinese with this example? There must be a huge line with NSA, DARPA, NASA, all the military branches up at the front of the line

[Red Badger]

ISWYDT......................

[Red Badger]

The Chinese computer has a virus....................

[blam]

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing

Google’s quantum computer. The company said in a paper published on Wednesday that the machine needed only a few minutes to perform a task that would take a supercomputer at least 10,000 years.

[devane617]

Honeywell on the rail and moving up...

[Calvin Locke]

I've used a Honeywell computer before.

Actually, Honeywell took over Xerox Data Systems (Who bought into the computer business by acquiring Scientific Data Systems). I think it was a Sigma 6.

[Red Badger]

like the metal chilled to nearly 460 degrees below zero inside Google’s machine.

That's a pretty neat trick...............I don't think they'll be doing it on desktops any time soon.................

[Zathras]

A bump for the “Jewish Bomb Factory” in St Louis Park, MN
That is what it was called inside the company.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Ya know, the quantum computer was Noah’s Ark. It was built using qubits.

Good one!

Biblical pun.

[bayliving]

Or... Did the best quantum computer ever built, build Honeywell?

Think about it...

[GreenHornet]

Honeywell, a US company best known for its home thermostats, has announced that it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer.

However, they can't get the printer to work right.

[dp0622]

I barely understood this post :)

So you owned a computer called a Sigma 6.

Xerox got into the computer business by buying SDS, which i’m not familiar with and Honeywell took over Xerox.

I’m 51. I didn’t get involved in computers really until I was in my mid 20s. Perhas SDS was a little earlier or you just know a lot more about computer companies than me.

I’m going with that answer :)

I looked up Sigma 6 and did not find anything.

I’m not even sure what Honeywell’s main business is.

I did graphics and presentations creation for investment banks for 20 years. Not too much on the tech side of things

[sleepwalker]

Actually, the original Honeywell computers were developed by Honeywell before it was bought by Allied Signal (who took the Honeywell name).

Before the allied signal deal Honeywell bought the GE computer systems group. The large GE computers were HQ'd in Phoenix. They operating system was GCOS or GECOS. they also had Multics running on the GE machines.

Honeywell also bought XDS primarily for their PL1 compiler.

[Red Badger]

I don’t get it...................