At a day-long event, IBM released a white paper, titled “Building an Indian Quantum Industry”, which was unveiled by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrashekhar.
“Quantum I think is amongst many things that we see as emerging areas when it comes to frontiers of technology. India and the Indian ecosystem must be a part of this collaborative model,” Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrashekhar said Wednesday while virtually addressing industry experts and stakeholders in the tech ecosystem at IBM’s annual Think conference in Mumbai
“we intend to build capabilities in quantum and high-performance computing.” At a day-long event, IBM released a white paper, titled “Building an Indian Quantum Industry”, which was unveiled by Chandrashekhar. The white paper is a part of an effort to create the quantum computing ecosystem in India.
Recent years have seen a surge in “quantum” computing to build super-fast computers. Quantum computers are based on qubits, a unit that can hold more data than classic binary bits. Experts say such machines could revolutionise computing, taking advantage of quantum physics to solve problems that “classical” computers cannot.
In 2019, Google announced that it had reached something called “quantum supremacy” when it published an article in the journal Nature. The Software giant said that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years.