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| IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet of weird machines - CNET Posted: 06 May 2020 05:31 PM PDT  The IBM Q quantum computer looks nothing like a classical computer. Stephen Shankland/CNETIBM now has 18 quantum computers, an increase of three this quarter that underscores the company's effort to benefit from a revolutionary type of computing. Dario Gil, head of IBM Research and a champion of its quantum computing effort, disclosed the number at the Big Blue's Think conference Wednesday. Eighteen quantum computers might not sound like a lot. But given that each one is an unwieldy device chilled within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and operated by Ph.D. researchers, it's actually a pretty large fleet. In comparison, Google's quantum computers lab near Santa Barbara, California, has only five machines, and Honeywell only has six quantum computers. Quantum computing is no longer in its infancy, but it's probably only made it to early toddlerhood. The technology today remains exotic and expensive, with largely unproven benefits. But companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Honeywell along with startups like IonQ, Quantum Circuits and Rigetti Computing are racing to bring quantum computing to maturity. Their hope is to cash in on customers' desire to solve classes of computing problems that are impossible for conventional computers.  IBM's fleet of quantum computers has increased to 18. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNETYou're not likely to ever have your own quantum computer since they're so hard to operate, surrounded by hulking cooling equipment and isolated from outside interference that spoils calculations. Instead, you'll be able to tap into them via cloud computing services. So far, 230,000 people have done so with IBM's Q Experience, Gil said. IBM is working to make its quantum computers accessible to mere mortals, not just those who understand the weird physics concepts like superposition and entanglement that make quantum computers tick. It's doing so by packaging computational operations into standard recipes it calls circuits that apply a sequence of transformations to qubits, the quantum data storage elements that are far more adaptable than conventional computers' bits. Quantum computing circuitsOne sequence of operations forms a circuit to help JP Morgan Chase set prices for financial derivatives and another helps Daimler perform physics simulations to try to improve electric vehicle battery chemistry. Computing will become a hybrid approach with libraries of quantum computing circuits embedded in classical programs, Gil predicted. And a third flavor, computers inspired by the neurons in human brains, will add another option. "It is not that one will eat the other," Gil said. "The most profound implication of what is happening today in computing is the convergence of bits, neurons and qubits." IBM believes those quantum circuits, embedded within ordinary software, will make quantum computing much more broadly accessible. And now it's begun a new business strategy of touting the approach -- "circuits as a service." "That's where we're going," Gil said in a CNET interview. "If we do that well, that's going to expose quantum computing to a much larger group of humans."  Dario Gil, head of IBM Research, shows off one of IBM's 18 quantum computers during its Think conference. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNETIBM will still offer low-level access to its systems for those who want to squeeze the most out of the hardware, though. Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell likes the strategy. "Rather than reinventing a programming language, they added libraries for Python," a widely used conventional programming language. "But you can also get 'dirty' with the Qiskit platform," IBM's low-level quantum programming tools, he said. Doubling quantum computing performance annuallyIBM is on a path to at least double the performance of its quantum computers every year, something it's done for four years running so far. It scores its machines on a measurement it invented called quantum volume, which tracks both the number of qubits in a machine and the reduction in error rates that hobble quantum calculations. IBM's quantum computing rivals haven't generally signed up to use the same benchmark, but the most notable one that has is Honeywell. It's building a different variety of quantum computer -- an ion trap machine that can run at somewhat less frosty temperatures than IBM's superconducting designs. And Honeywell promises its machines will increase quantum volume by a factor of 10 each year, a much faster pace than IBM. Gil said he's confident of IBM's approach for years to come, though, which is backed by insights gleaned from IBM Research's investigations. IBM's top-performing quantum computer, codenamed Paris, has 53 qubits. IBM will increase that with a larger system later this year that Gil declined to detail, but he said Big Blue's approach will work beyond a million qubits. That progress will come in part by miniaturizing hardware and stuffing more of it into the cryostat -- the supercooled chamber that houses the quantum computing processor and a complicated arrangement of wires that carry microwave signals used to operate it, Gil said. Part of that change will come through processor technology better able to run at such cold temperatures. Is Gil worried Honeywell will leapfrog IBM? Ion trap machines have potential, but "we've done our homework," he said. Honeywell didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Operating a cloud computing service is also tough, Gil said. But he welcomes the competition. "It's a great thing that Honeywell is pushing an ambitious road map."  Watch this: Quantum computing is the new super supercomputer 4:11  |
| 3 Top Cloud Computing Stocks to Buy in May - Motley Fool Posted: 06 May 2020 06:00 AM PDT Tech investors looking for stable investments right now will be hardpressed to find a company that hasn't seen their share price effected by the current pandemic. But despite the uncertainty surrounding the stock market and the economy, there are still companies that have fantastic long-term potential. Three such examples in the cloud computing market are Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Here's why.  Image source: Getty Images. MicrosoftIt's hard to find a large tech company that's executed its cloud computing strategy as well as Microsoft. Microsoft has not only transitioned its popular Office apps to the cloud, but it's built out entirely new cloud products over the past few years that are snatching up a large share of the market as well. The best example of this is the company's Azure cloud computing infrastructure service. Azure, which competes directly with Amazon Web Services (AWS), accounts for 18% of the public cloud market, up from 13% three years ago. Those market share gains have come at Amazon's expense and have shown investors that even after 46 years, Microsoft is still as innovative as ever. Azure's sales grew by 59% in the most recent quarter and Microsoft's broader Commercial Cloud sales (which include its cloud-based Microsoft 365 subscriptions) jumped 39% year over year to $13.3 billion. What's great about Microsoft's cloud computing strength is that there's plenty of room for the company to expand in the market. The public cloud market is worth about $266 billion right now and will grow to $355 billion by 2022. With Microsoft's long list of cloud-based services and newer cloud products like Teams (a Slack competitor) continuing to gain steam, Microsoft's cloud opportunity is just getting started. AmazonIf you're looking for the leader in the cloud computing market, look no further than Amazon. The company's AWS holds a very impressive 33% of the market right now. While Microsoft has made some gains on Amazon's cloud business over the past few years, it's hard to imagine Amazon being overtaken in this space any time soon. Even during the pandemic, the company's cloud business has expanded. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in the company's first-quarter press release last week, "The current crisis is demonstrating the adaptability and durability of Amazon's business as never before." AWS revenue surged 33% in the first quarter and, even more impressive, Amazon's AWS continues to be the company's most profitable business. AWS' first-quarter operating income was $3.1 billion, which was a 38% increase from the year-ago quarter and far outpaced the company's e-commerce operating income from its North American segment, which was $1.3 billion. Amazon's existence isn't as dependent on cloud computing as some of its other competitors, but that hasn't stopped Amazon from staying focused on growing its lucrative AWS business and dominating the space. As such, Amazon is as close to a sure bet in the cloud computing market as you can get. AlphabetAlphabet is increasingly looking to cloud computing as a bigger part of its future and the company's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) already has about 8% of the public cloud market right now. That's far behind Amazon and Microsoft, but investors shouldn't count Alphabet out of this race just yet. Sales from Alphabet's broad Google Cloud business, which includes its GCP and its G Suite products, spiked 52% in the most recent quarter to $2.8 billion. That figure may not seem like much compared to Alphabet's competitors, but the company indicated on its first-quarter earnings call last week that it's more committed to the cloud than ever before. "Cloud and productivity software for businesses of all sizes is a deep area of investment," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said. Alphabet already boasts a large and growing number of large companies that are using its cloud computing services and products, including Shopify, Vodafone, and AT&T, and Alphabet now has more than 6 million paying G Suite customers. With cloud computing being one of the company's brightest spots in the most recent quarter, and companies needing more cloud-based services than ever before, investors can expect Alphabet to be even more focused on boosting its cloud products in the coming years. Cloud computing is far more than a trendCloud computing was already a fast-growing market before COVID-19 arrived, but the coronavirus pandemic has shown many companies -- both large and small -- that having reliable, cloud-based software and services is critical. With so many people in the U.S. and abroad working and communicating from home, there's little excuse for anyone to shun the cloud services the above companies offer. And with demand surging for these services, you can bet that Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet will be fighting even harder to gain an advantage as this market expands.  |
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