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Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company's quantum laboratory.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For other reading and looking for context, this is a quantum computing operation, not a materials science research.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel like I'm missing something... Why would one think this was in reference to materials science?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Quantum tunneling is the cause of one of the current speed limits in CPU design in higher performance computing.

As transistors and other semiconductor devices continue to shrink to sizes of atoms, we enter the realm of the quantum world. Here, we encounter an increasingly significant phenomenon known as “quantum tunneling”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Because Alibaba, ships a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Maybe other Quantum Computer initiatives have great OPSEC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That's what the media says, what's the reality just they know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they came far enough that the party now takes over their equipment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is highly plausible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's too expensive to become profitable within the lifetime of the current board of directors and investors, and also no one was likely paid enough to be qualified to justify the expense to anyone in charge.