Quantum computer
IBM cooperates with industry
IBM wants to drive quantum research forward together with industry and has also gained Daimler as a partner. The automotive group wants to research how quantum technology can be used to develop potential applications for the automotive industry.
"The intelligent, connected car of the future needs computing power that is not available today," said Ola Källenjus, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG. "We believe that quantum computers could play an important role in creating sustainable and highly efficient mobility."
"In close cooperation with our customers, we want to explore how large and small quantum systems can be used to tackle previously unsolvable problems in the financial, automotive and chemical industries," said Dario Gil from IBM Research. The focus of the collaboration is on solving complex optimization problems, for example in manufacturing processes or autonomous vehicles. IBM has now gained a total of twelve partners for its 'IBM Q' initiative, which aims to test the use of quantum computers for commercial and scientific applications. In addition to Daimler, the universities of Oxford, Keio (Tokyo) and Melbourne, the electronics and chip group Samsung, Honda, Hitachi Metals and Barclays have joined the network.
As conventional computer technology is slowly reaching its physical limits, quantum computers have been researched as an alternative for many years. It is hoped that they could enable computing power that is almost unimaginable today on the basis of quantum mechanics. Unlike the conventional bits of a computer, which consist of zeros and ones, the units of the quantum computer known as 'qubits' can represent several states simultaneously.
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