Google has announced that it is in a new partnership with the University of California to develop quantum computers which apply quantum bits rather than the traditional binary system of ones and zeros to process information.
This, the researchers say, will make the computers exponentially faster than digital computers. And that is to say the emerging computer will be super faster than those we know of today.
Google has been researching potential applications of quantum computing since May 2013, when it bought a D-Wave, a company that is developing what may be called the first commercially viable quantum computer, the "Vesuvius".
Last Wednesday Hartmut Neven, Director of Engineering at Google Quantum Lab announced in a blog posting that the Quantum Artificial Intelligence team at Google is launching a hardware initiative to design and build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics.
'We are pleased to announce that John Martinis and his team at UC Santa Barbara will join Google in this initiative. John and his group have made great strides in building superconducting quantum electronic components of very high fidelity. He recently was awarded the London Prize recognizing him for his pioneering advances in quantum control and quantum information processing. With an integrated hardware group the Quantum AI team will now be able to implement and test new designs for quantum optimization and inference processors based on recent theoretical insights as well as our learnings from the D-Wave quantum annealing architecture. We will continue to collaborate with D-Wave scientists and to experiment with the "Vesuvius" machine at NASA Ames which will be upgraded to a 1000 qubit "Washington" processor'.
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