Rigetti: $10M in quantum chip infrastructure rivals $4B classical supercomputers
“There's effectively sort of Cambrian explosion happening because companies can, you know, invest ten million dollars in manufacturing infrastructure and build individual chips that are close to rivaling the capacity of an entire supercomputer. And that superco…”
Chad Rigetti: Neuromorphic chips will soon be in mobile handsets
“We're talking about neuromorphic chips in individual handsets being available soon for machine learning.”
Rigetti: Adding a single qubit doubles a quantum computer's performance
“And with a quantum computer, if you have a hundred qubits and you add one more, you don't have a one percent performance increase, you double the performance. And that persists independent of the memory size. So every quantum bit you add to the system doubles,…”
Rigetti: Quantum devices will perform calculations classical supercomputers never can
“And what it means is what appear to be rudimentary quantum mechanical devices can encode a tremendous amount of information and can be used to compute things that are physically impossible to compute, not only with today's supercomputers, but with any foreseea…”
Rigetti: Classical supercomputers cannot simulate the exact structure of 50-atom molecules
“A small molecule with something like 50 atoms is, is, is almost impossible to compute the exact molecular structure, or the exact electronic structure.”
Rigetti: Algorithmic understanding will become quantum computing's primary bottleneck
“And over the next few years, the quantum hardware that we're building is getting better at such a fast rate that we're reaching this point where the bottleneck is going to be understanding the best algorithms to run on those machines to get the most value out …”
Rigetti: Quantum systems require sophisticated classical computers wrapped around them
“And part of what that implies is that you need to build a very sophisticated Classical computer around the quantum computer to both leverage its resources and to offload anything from that quantum computer that can be offloaded so that the quantum computer is …”
Rigetti: Only one or two groups had demonstrated superconducting qubits during PhD start
“When I started my PhD in I think there's one or two groups in the world that had ever built and demonstrated a superconducting qubit with a measurable coherence time.”
Rigetti: Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA encryption are 20-30 years away
“We're probably 20 to 30 years away from having a machine that would really be able to run Shore's algorithm on Wall Street. On practically relevant problem sizes. At some point in the future, quantum computers will be able to crack RSA encryption.”
Rigetti: Codebreaking is one of the least interesting quantum applications
“It's a curse to some extent because that application, from my perspective, is one of the least interesting. It's not as interesting in relation to the other things that quantum computers are going to help us do.”