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Re:Large-scale quantum chip validated by teraflop on Saturday June 29, 2013 @01:02AM (#5961544)
It doesn't run "programs" like a Turing or von Neumann machine does; it's not even a universal quantum computer. It solves certain specific instances of an optimization problem which, in the general case, is NP-hard.
Re:Large-scale quantum chip validated by IanChiles on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:21AM (#5962304)
Just to clarify, it's like a quantum ASIC?