Thanks Chris.  To all:

 

Interestingly (to me), story in today's Advertiser reported that Intel has designed chip--but still in research stage--that promises to perform calculations (a trillion per second) as quickly as an entire data center, while consuming as much electricity as a light bulb.  Both Intel and IBM reported last month they had separately devised ways to overcome overheating and? leaking too much current as chips get smaller per Moore's Law. 

 

TEn yrs ago, same performance took supercomputer requiring 2000 sq ft, 10,000 Pentium processors, and 500 kw.   This compares? to 64,000 calculations simultaneously (in parallel "universes") in PCWorld article about Quantum computing Chris sent.

 

Intel or reporter? speculates first uses for new Intel chips would likely be in corporate data centers, supercomputers, comm infra, and heavy-duty fin and sci research, as well as eventually AI, realistic 3D modeling, and real-time speech recognition.  But Intel also suggested one possible consumer use: "intelligent" monitoring of TV sports that IDs and compiles highlights based on spectator pref. 

 

Finally, does anyone understand diff between quantum and photonic/optic computing and where development of latter is relative to quantum?

 

Aloha,

 

TB 

 

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