China’s Optical Quantum Chip Claims Revolutionary 1000x Leap Over GPUs
The global race for quantum supremacy has accelerated dramatically in recent years, but few announcements have generated as much industry-wide curiosity—and skepticism—as the claim emerging from China this month. A research and manufacturing group known as Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore (CHIPX) has revealed what it calls the world’s first scalable, industrial-grade optical quantum computing chip, a device the developers say can process artificial intelligence workloads 1,000 times faster than Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs. If verified, such a leap would represent one of the most consequential technological milestones in modern computing. However, the announcement lands in a landscape where … Read more