Intel's QUANTUM CPU Prototype
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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mouse with multiple computers you can check it out at the link in the video
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description so we're here in the Intel booth at ces
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2018 where they are showing off some very
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non-conventional chips so first up we've
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got a quantum processor from Intel this is code name
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tangle lake the most advanced chip that has
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ever been designed if the folks here are to be believed and i don't know they
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seem pretty credible so Intel is saying that this gate-based
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ship has a provable quantum speed up
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something that you actually can't take for granted because there has been some
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controversy in the quantum computing community around whether some existing
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quantum chips are actually faster or
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truly quantum so these connections you see here are
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actually fundamentally basic coaxial
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connections except they're made out of solid gold and
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this is where quantum computing gets kind of crazy they are basically
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externally driven by microwave generators that control
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and manipulate the qubits so the actual quantum processor though
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is on the other side and looks a little something like this guys so this has to
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be held at a temperature that is 250
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times colder than deep space so the only
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way to get it to that temperature is in a cooler about the size of a 55 gallon
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drum and then they're using some undisclosed helium isotope in order to
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chill it to that temperature now the practical applications of quantum
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computing are many um so let's talk
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about biosciences being able to simulate protein folding instead of serially bit
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by bit you can actually look at the whole thing all at once uh fluid
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dynamics computational science um here's something they were talking about once
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they get up to a hundred cubits they figure you'll be able to break through
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brute force alone existing encryption schemes
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so that's sort of terrifying but i've been assured that we'll have better
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encryption by the time that's a problem right right yeah good okay so that's
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great next to it
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we've got their neuromorphic luigi chip
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so this is actually this little tiny chip right here under the board
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is 128 cores of which only three of them
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i believe are conventional cpus the rest
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of them are other types of processors so four of these guys fit on this board
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right here and they are using a type of architecture that is referred to as
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biomimetics or biomimicking so it actually uses the same inferencing and
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learning engines as the human brain
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so the advantage here is very very high
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speeds for the type of thinking that a brain would do so
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self-driving cars anybody and extreme
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power efficiency so they figure this is about a hundred times more efficient
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than a traditional chip for optimized
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workloads speaking of optimizing your workload
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