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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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429 points AbhishekParmar | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Lapsa ◴[22 Oct 25 17:33 UTC] No.45672434[source]▶
but can it run Doom?
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1. wiz21c ◴[22 Oct 25 19:27 UTC] No.45673976[source]▶
Linux would be a start :-)
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2. junon ◴[22 Oct 25 20:44 UTC] No.45674905[source]▶
I wouldn't hold my breath for Linux on a quantum computer.
3. westurner ◴[23 Oct 25 01:52 UTC] No.45677324[source]▶
FWIU a 6-stage RISC processor is sufficient to run Linux.

Things like CUDA-Q may be faster on classical computers than on quantum computers for forever; though what CUDA-Q solves for is also an optimization problem?