⚠️ A NEW FOE HAS APPEARED ⚠️ - Honeywell claims it has the most powerful quantum computer

[rcmaehl]

Source:

CNN

Honeywell

Technology Review (Quote source)

 

Summary:
Honeywell has rolled out it's own quantum computer among giants Google and IBM, claiming it to be the best among existing quantum computers.

 

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Honeywell, a...company best known for its home thermostats,...announced that it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer. Honeywell has been working quietly on quantum tech that it plans to make available to clients via the internet in the next three months. Most quantum computers, including those being developed by IBM and Google, are built around superconducting qubits, which use supercooled circuits. Honeywell...uses a different technology, called ion traps, which hold ions—the computer’s qubits—in place with electromagnetic fields. Superconducting quantum chips are faster, but ion traps are more accurate and hold their quantum state for longer. Honeywell also says it can hit pause on a quantum computation, read off the state of a qubit, and then restart the computation down a different path depending on the result. The firm claims its computer will be twice as powerful as IBM’s machine, Q System One, when it launches, although that particular claim is likely to be contested. Honeywell also has partnerships with JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft, which will provide quantum computing algorithms and general computing know-how. Honeywell might seem like an outsider in this space, but it is a massive company with a wealth of industrial expertise that goes well beyond thermostats, especially in many high-precision sectors such as defense and aerospace. Its experience working with vacuums and cryogenics is likely to have played a big part in its efforts to build a quantum computer, which draws on many more areas of engineering than a regular computer. This suggests the smart money for next-gen quantum tech should be on industrial conglomerates like Honeywell just as much as on traditional tech giants like IBM and Google. 

 

My Thoughts:

If you had asked me to name 20 companies I thought would develop a quantum computer just a few hours ago, the list would have been drastically different and Honeywell wouldn't even have been thought of. If true, this may be an indicator of things to come as tech companies may be fighting an uphill battle of learning technologies other huge manufacturing brands have years of experience in. Who do you think will be next to join the quantum computer race?

[TempestCatto]

Can it run Doom?

[TVwazhere]

Just now, rcmaehl said:

Who do you think will be next to join the quantum computer race?

Hell if I know? Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts could be working on a super computer for all I know at this point.

[GDRRiley]

I like how everyone forgets all the different things Honeywell makes. I'm not completely surprised given how much defense money they get.

[Doobeedoo]

Next, gaming company announced quantum computer.

[givingtnt]

Oh shit nice.

[PeterVBelgium]

and is i tlike double confirmed?

as i would say if this is true this would be world news

[PeterVBelgium]

ah:

sadly it's not real yet

 

https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/08/why-honeywell-cant-claim-the-worlds-most-powerful-quantum-computer/

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Hell if I know? Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts could be working on a super computer for all I know at this point.

[Theguywhobea]

We sell a lot of Honeywell products where I work, and trust me, they can't even ship their devices with the correct firmware, so I'm not too confident with their super computer.

[schwellmo92]

Not surprised honestly, Honeywell make a tonne of tech. A lot of mines, oil, gas, manufacturing, etc, run on Honeywell gear for sensory equipment and use their process historian database software - it’s super expensive critical gear. We have an important piece of Honeywell gear go down at one of our sites and we can be losing millions of dollars. They’re a $110B company... bigger than IBM.

[Bombastinator]

“My not yet good for anything still in early research type of computer is ever so slightly more powerful than yours”. It’s good that more people are looking at it.  I understand when the things reach 128 bits they might actually be good for something.  I await that day.

[Mope El Two]

I'm sure Disney will be next; forget about our Computer Overlords, what about our Rodent Overlord?

 

[rcmaehl]

3 minutes ago, Mope El Two said:

I'm sure Disney will be next; forget about our Computer Overlords, what about our Rodent Overlord?

 

I mean they supposedly have the best experience in Cryogenics, decades ahead of others 

[Dedayog]

44 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

Next, gaming company announced quantum computer.

You don't think NVidia could roll out a serious contender currently?

 

Retask Geforce Now. Done. (not exactly but you know what I mean)

[FakeCIA]

Honeywell makes the infrastructure for the US aircraft carriers. With that kind of money coming in, I wouldn't be surprised they're working on quantum computing. Good for them.

[CPT_BEEMO]

Remember when Honeywell released details of achieving quantum supremacy before IBM and Google?

 

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[Beerzerker]

3 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

I like how everyone forgets all the different things Honeywell makes. I'm not completely surprised given how much defense money they get.

I agree, Honeywell has been around a very long time and has been involved with a ton of different things over time.

This really isn't suprising to me even though I too would have never had their name in the pot for such an endeavor.

[RejZoR]

3 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

next week: Hershey's announces claim to world's best quantum computing CPU

I think Nestle will do it before them... They just have more chocolate.

[TechyBen]

3 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Can it run Doom?

Yes and...

 

 

 

 

... this joke still goes nowhere.

[alex75871]

Next: Asus announces quantum computer RGB

[straight_stewie]

5 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

Honeywell, a...company best known for its home thermostat

I don't know where they got that from. Honeywell is similar to Raytheon in terms of it being a general military and government technology contractor.

 

Here's a short list of Honeywell product interests:

• Small military Drones
• Military and Commercial Flight Hardware, including FMCs
• Weather Radars
• Targeting Radars
• Space craft on board GNC equipment
• Bendix King general aviation equipment
• Radiation hardened microprocessors
• GNSS satellite MIMS systems
• Military Helicopter Engines
• Military Bomb and Missile Racks
• Aircraft Auxiliary Power Units
• A plethora of switches, joysticks, and sensors for general commercial, industrial, military, or spaceflight use

Honeywell is actually a software and computer hardware provider for the government and big industry at large. Honeywell Aerospace, Honeywell Defense, and BendixKing are their primary subsidiaries. Honeywells main competitors are Raytheon and Rockwell-Collins.

[Dylanc1500]

Honeywell had/has nuclear reactors and mainframes as well, so this is no surprise to me. They are a bit like GE. They make just about everything and you would never know it.

[TetraSky]

Huh. Like many others, Honeywell even being in the Quantum computer "race" is a surprise to me.

But hey, if they can help push Quantum PC advancement further, I'm all for it.

[straight_stewie]

1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

Huh. Like many others, Honeywell even being in the Quantum computer "race" is a surprise to me.

Why is that a surprise?

Honeywell's primary business is as a software and computer/electrical hardware provider mostly to the military, but also to aerospace and commercial industry at large. They are in the same space as Rockwell-Collins and Raytheon.