The company boasts a great futuristic-sounding and extremely important quantum computer in the world for cybersecurity, cryptocurrencies and the entire IT sector. But he will do it on the show on HBO and without further technical details. Welcome to the PR world, where, as in the world of quantum bits, good news means bad news.
This no / interesting announcement saw the light of day exactly a week ago. The American cable company HBO Axios published a part of a video interview with IBM boss Arvind Krishna on its Sunday website, in which he claims that his company has built a 127-bit quantum processor. According to him, it is currently the most powerful in the world, and what’s more, its performance is so high that it is the first processor in the world to process and simulate operations that can no longer be simulated on a traditional transistor processor.
“You would need a computer bigger than Earth to be able to simulate what is on the new Eagle quantum processor,” he said. But what exactly are the processes?
For the record: According to official statistics, a quantum computer is now trying to build a total of 98 companies and organizations. To create qubits (quantum bits, which due to the phenomena of quantum mechanics can take both states in the binary system, so they can report as 1 and 0 at the same time – note aut.), These subjects use a number of different technologies and strongly depends on what exactly these quantum computers have to “count”. These could be the physical properties of theoretical materials, chemical reactions, or blockchain cipher keys.
But IBM did not release the details of its actions in parallel with Krishna’s statement, which came somehow quietly a few days later. And so this bombastic information fell on the market, the company’s shares jumped slightly and subsequently continued the downward trend. They wrote off three percent last week.
What lessons can we learn from this technological-scientific PR event last week? For example, they at IBM should reconsider the way they report futuristic breakthroughs, that investors don’t trust quantum computers yet, or at least not those from the IBM workshop, and that ordinary people won’t use the quantum computer so soon. But everyone knows that you don’t need a scalpel to cut bread.
So it’s all reminiscent of the famous phrase “in about twenty years” from the development of another, similarly futuristic-sounding technology: cold fusion. But about that again.
