In October 2019, Google AI, in partnership with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), published results demonstrating completion in 200 seconds a task the equivalent of which would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer approximately 10,000 years to complete. The results were published in Nature. From lab to production The promise of quantum computing is that some computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum computer compared to a classical computer. This year Quantum computing is moving out of the lab and into production. The combination of quantum computing and AI enables financial, manufacturing, energy, automotive, pharmaceutical, and many other industry sectors to solve some of the most difficult problems not possible using conventional computing. The need to solve problems beyond what current computing can handle In the area of pharmaceutical research where scientists want to design a synthetic drug, one of the first steps is to understand the composition of the molecule. Modeling the structure of a molecule such as penicillin, which has 41 atoms, would require a classical computer with more transistors than there are atoms in the observable universe. This is not physical possible. It is possible for quantum computers. Moore’s law is reaching its […]