they are effectively GPUs
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit a general operating system enough that an OS would be modified to require the use of one.
sga@lemmings.world 2 days ago
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
QPUs
paperplane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Seriously. There are a lot of parallels between GPUs and quantum processors in terms of being architected towards a more specialized form of computing and I could totally see QPUs being a thing in the future, e.g. for number crunching tasks (Shor) or database searches (Grover). Similar story for NPUs, which are tailored to do ML inference (so mostly matrix multiplication) quickly.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Exactly. If they do ever become a thing, if thats even possible, it would be a special card like a graphics card.