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AR15.COM
1/19/2011 2:52:59 PM EDT


LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have moved a step closer to creating
ultra-fast quantum computers by generating 10 billion bits of quantum
entanglement in silicon for the first time.







The achievement in silicon, the basis of the computer chip, has
important implications for integration with existing technology,
according to a team from Britain, Japan, Canada and Germany whose study
was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.







"Creating 10 billion entangled pairs in silicon with high fidelity is
an important step forward for us," said John Morton of Britain's Oxford
University, who led the team.








 
1/19/2011 3:06:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Why spooky.

Welcome our new overlords!



1/19/2011 3:08:25 PM EDT
[#2]
The beginning may now be inevitable.

1/19/2011 3:10:41 PM EDT
[#3]
We now need to deal with the challenge of coupling these pairs together to build a scalable quantum computer in silicon.


I don't suspect I'll be buying one of these from Dell anytime soon.  Still cool though.
1/19/2011 3:11:31 PM EDT
[#4]
i for one welcome our new silicon overlords.
1/19/2011 3:12:06 PM EDT
[#5]



Quoted:



We now need to deal with the challenge of coupling these pairs together to build a scalable quantum computer in silicon.


I don't suspect I'll be buying one of these from Dell anytime soon.  Still cool though.


Scaled even larger, distributed computing takes on a whole new meaning.



 
1/19/2011 3:13:43 PM EDT
[#6]
Cool...wholesale fembots!

You don't need a new CPU, now get in the kitchen and make me a sammich...BOT!
1/19/2011 3:15:47 PM EDT
[#7]
Artificial intelligence could be the last thing mankind invents.




1/19/2011 3:24:57 PM EDT
[#8]
The consequences will never be the same
1/19/2011 3:28:14 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
We now need to deal with the challenge of coupling these pairs together to build a scalable quantum computer in silicon.


I don't suspect I'll be buying one of these from Dell anytime soon.  Still cool though.

I think a QE "wireless" device would be pretty slick.
1/19/2011 3:28:22 PM EDT
[#10]
What a horrible waste of silicon!







1/19/2011 3:28:25 PM EDT
[#11]
I understand most of those words in that post, I think.
1/19/2011 3:29:00 PM EDT
[#12]



Quoted:


The beginning may now be inevitable.





Worse than y2k?



 
1/19/2011 3:37:26 PM EDT
[#13]
So my new F'ing laptop is obsolete AGAIN?!??
1/19/2011 3:43:39 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
What a horrible waste of silicon!




Silicon =/= silicone.  
1/19/2011 3:44:43 PM EDT
[#15]
More vaporware.