Exactly. If they do ever become a thing, if thats even possible, it would be a special card like a graphics card.
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
sga@lemmings.world 1 year ago
they are effectively GPUs
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
QPUs
paperplane@lemmy.world 1 year 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.