Art of a different kind, akin to Steuben Glass at its height, comes to mind when looking at IBM's massive quantum computer, something almost otherworldly in its remote beauty, packaging tech that will change the world in ways we cannot imagine.
"Imagine a car," he told Engadget, "but take off the shiny exterior of the car. And then move the battery over to one side. Instead of having a very tightly integrated set of electronics in the powertrain and things like that, start pulling them apart into pieces and just kind of spreading them all around the car. It might still be functional. But it's not a great design [in terms of] integration, right?"
Roughly one year ago, IBM set out to make something better: a fully integrated system that was modular, easily upgradable and optimized for quantum computing. The result, which is being unveiled at CES today, is called the IBM Q System One.
And it looks wild.
Art of a Different Kind indeed.
No comments:
Post a Comment