Tech titan IBM and multinational IT company NCS held a virtual media briefing on Wednesday, Jan. 31, to announce the signing of an agreement formalizing their collaboration to prepare the Asean region for the growing threat posed by advancing quantum computing.
IDC said it expects the quantum computing market will continue to experience slower growth until a major quantum hardware development that leads to a quantum advantage is announced.
As Asia Pacific companies brace for macroeconomic slowdown and disruptive events increase in 2023, US tech giant Dell Technologies advised business organizations to prepare for the year ahead.
IBM has introduced the “IBM Osprey”, its new 433-quantum bit (qubit) processor, which contains the largest qubit count of any IBM quantum processor, more than tripling the 127 qubits on the IBM Eagle processor unveiled in 2021.
Saying exponential problems require exponential computation, industry titan IBM is betting big that “quantum computing” will bring profound changes to the technology landscape more than what artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain – two tech trends which it also pioneered and helped developed – have done in recent years.
