Even a month after the news of the quantum computer breakthrough, Professor Aric of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has not given up on his original point.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lu Zhou's ability.

It's just that he can't imagine that without mastering quantum storage technology, there is a slight possibility of being able to achieve more than 100 qubits.

Now Google's approach is to start with the software side, which is the quantum annealing algorithm, which has been particularly popular recently.

But even the best brains at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can come up with nothing more than 80-90 qubits for this experimental quantum computer.

As for 524......

It's just sci-fi.

He prefers to see this as a political hoax, after all, it is not the first time that the idiots in Washington, D.C., have been blackmailed by third world countries with some strange gadgets.

Obviously, China is putting pressure on the International Information System Security Certification Alliance to promote their quantum encryption algorithms and quantum fiber optic cables by demonstrating their quantum supremacy.

After all, if there is no quantum computer technology, whether it is quantum encryption algorithms or quantum communication technology, it is in fact completely unnecessary.

With the slow computing power of traditional supercomputing, even if it continues to grow, it will take a century to pry open the Fed's coffers.

However, with quantum computers, it's different.

The exponential increase in computing power is something that everyone will be afraid of......

Breakfast was brought to the lab as usual, and Professor Arik, sitting at his desk, was about to open his mailbox to check for new review invitations.

Just then, his colleague Dr. Cecil was walking back from the coffee machine with two cups of coffee and placing one of them on his desk.

"Would you like a coffee?"

"Thank you."

"You're welcome...... Speaking of which, today seems to be the day when Xinghai No. 1 is completed, are you paying attention to this matter? ”

"I've been paying attention, but I'm a little disappointed with their performance," Professor Arica said, taking a slow sip of the temperature, "The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study doesn't seem to be planning to give an opinion on this matter, and there hasn't been a single paper on the quantum computer after that, except for the review paper." ”

Dr. Cecil nodded thoughtfully.

"That's right...... It's a little weird. ”

Professor Arica looked at him and asked, "Do you have any news?" ”

"I don't know if it counts, I saw it on their official website," Dr. Cecil thought for a moment and continued, "It is said that they intend to prove the computing power of Xinghai One by calculating pi. ”

Taking a pleasant sip of coffee, Arica smiled.

"Oh, how many decimal places are they going to count?"

"It seems to be 10 to the 100th degree."

The moment he heard this, Arik, who hadn't swallowed a sip of coffee, almost squirted out without a mouthful.

Ten to the hundredth power?!

This is really a brag and no draft!

"Let's go until next year!"

With a cold sneer, Alik put his coffee cup aside, closed his mailbox with the mouse, and opened the browser.

Originally, he didn't care much about the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Xinghai No. 1.

However, they actually prepared such an interesting event for this ribbon-cutting ceremony, which was beyond his expectations.

He originally thought that those Chinese people would wear this "emperor's new clothes" all the time, but he didn't expect that this lie would be made up until the end and they themselves believed it.

Calculate to the hundredth degree of ten decimal places?

Hehe!

But it's okay, since they took the initiative to jump out, don't blame him for being merciless when he slapped his face.

D-Wave 3X is about to be completed soon, if those Chinese people think that they only need to calculate about a trillion bits forward on the original basis, and then make up some data to fool the past......

He will let them know the cost of lying.

For the D-Wave 3X, it may not be practical to calculate 3.14X10^100 digits after the decimal point of pi in a short period of time, but it is not a problem to refresh the record to 3.14X10^15 digits.

However, when Arik opened the browser with great ambition and looked at the screen, the whole person was there.

He hasn't even logged on to Star Tech's official website yet.

I saw a few eye-catching headlines, and they were posted at the top of the news column in the most eye-catching form:

[Epoch-making computer! Xinghai No. 1 passed the Guinness certification and set a new pi record! 】

—Los Angeles Daily News.

Arik: "??? ”

……

Arik was obviously not the only one who was stupefied by this news.

Almost shortly after the Guinness Book of World Records added the new record, discussions about Xinghai-1 were already swiped on Facebook and Twitter.

[Isn't Google also working on quantum computers?] Why is there no result at all?! 】

[I am very disappointed in this White House, even in the face of the Soviet Union, we still have the upper hand!] Now, however, there's controlled fusion, then there's the lunar space station...... It seems that we have been surpassed by ease. 】

[Approving BEACOM's acquisition of SubCom is the stupidest decision!] This is how we lose our advantages in appeasement again and again! 】

What is amazing is not only that Xinghai-1 calculated pi to 3.14X10^100 decimal places, but that it did it in less than a minute!

What does this mean?

It's hard to describe specifically.

But if you make an intuitive comparison, you can fully understand how exaggerated this terrifying computing power is.

Previously, it took Google's engineers 121 days to record 3.14X10^13 bits with the help of 25 virtual machines, not to mention with an algorithm optimized for calculating pi!

It's not much if it's just pi, but it's obviously more than that.

Soon, an information engineering professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Yodrifen came forward and posted his opinion on the matter on his personal blog.

Or rather, a warning to the authorities.

[With current computer technology, it is almost impossible to calculate pi to 3.14X10^100 bits. Even if the latest Longteng carbon-based chips are used, it will require a chassis the size of the White House and a professional team of at least ten people to design a set of specially customized algorithms for it, and then watch it count for a hundred years or even two hundred years. 】

[If I'm using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit supercomputer, I'm sorry to tell you that this may have to start when we were still fighting the Neanderthals for territory, and until I publish this blog, I'll be able to finish what Xinghai-1 did in a minute a few days ago.] 】

[I must remind our experts from the Ministry of Defense, as well as information security advisers, that although the Cold War era has long passed, new crises have emerged. 】

[Quantum supremacy will become something more terrifying and deterrent than nuclear hegemony, and with the powerful information processing power of quantum computers, the person who controls them may only need a few small satellites or high-altitude drones, or a bribed cleaner, to collapse the civilization that we have spent more than a century building overnight. 】

[Nuclear warheads? ICBMs? We may have the ability to counter them physically, but we have to get them out of the silos. 】