Reports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Lab

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨stopthatgirl7@kbin.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company's quantum laboratory.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For other reading and looking for context, this is a quantum computing operation, not a materials science research.

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- key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I feel like I’m missing something… Why would one think this was in reference to materials science?
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Quantum tunneling is the cause of one of the current speed limits in CPU design in higher performance computing.
    
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  - Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Because Alibaba, ships a lot of things.
    
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe other Quantum Computer initiatives have great OPSEC.

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BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s what media say, what’s the reality just they know.

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- GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe they came far enough that the party now takes over their equipment.
  
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  - Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is highly plausible.
    
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- BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It's too expensive to become profitable within the lifetime of the current board of directors and investors.
  
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