Where Will IonQ Be in 3 Years?
Quantum computing may change how you think of computers someday. The technology promises to solve problems a digital computer simply can't handle, while also speeding up very slow computing tasks. In theory, quantum computers should be great at finding patterns in unstructured data, which comes in handy for many real-world uses. The technology may turn many industries upside down and inside out, including healthcare research, financial services, and cryptocurrencies.
But that's a long-term promise. Quantum computers are bulky and expensive so far, and their number-crunching powers are not terribly impressive yet. Most of the proposed use cases and algorithms for this new class of computing hardware require hundreds, thousands, or millions of so-called qubits (readable quantum entanglements) before they can outperform old-school digital machines.
Researchers have cracked the 1,000-qubit barrier but those experimental systems rely on expensive superconductors and come with problematic rates of data error. Today's top hardware for commercial use only have a couple of dozen qubits.
Source Fool.com
