China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers

Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021. Loongson has developed a proprietary instruction set architecture that blends MIPS and RISC-V. China’s government has ordered thousands of computers using Loongson silicon, and strongly suggests Chinese …

[Anonymous Coward]

And they don't have to be better than Western kit, just better than whatever kit the West is prepared to let them have today ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or even: good enough, for a comparable price.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: better than Western kit

If they can export them profitable at lower prices than comparable Western kit, they can swamp the market and make enough money to develop at a faster pace.

Who really thinks they will not close the Chip gap soon? Especially as America is driving away so many foreign born scholars and students that are doing the development in the US.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pre-eminent source of off-the-shelf quantum computers

Now all they have to do is demonstrate how these computers are useful...

[Roj Blake]

Re: Pre-eminent source of off-the-shelf quantum computers

I can see the Chinese government being very interested in breaking encryption.

Although I don't know how many cats would need to (possibly) die before a useful result is achieved.

[TheBruce]

Re: Pre-eminent source of off-the-shelf quantum computers

Like all the other hype really hard to get anything useful from quantum computers

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Pre-eminent source of off-the-shelf quantum computers

Now all they have to do is demonstrate how these computers are useful... .... Anonymous Coward

Control of input provision with command of universal output and vice versa, which via the magic of quantum entanglement renders any number of those stealthy superior surprises with sensitive exclusive singularity ramifications demonstrating almightily advanced and unprecedented progress, is that which will permit universal leadership for those following another one of those Grand Chinese Long Marches resulting in this very useful program and project of inescapable and previously thought highly unlikely impossible events ...... and the fact that y’all might think and denouce and deny the possibility with it forever to be believed a fiction, is that which graces its progress with practically zero effective virtual hindrance, competition or opposition. I Kid U Not.

amanfromMars [2506300643] ...... airs on https://www.zerohedge.com/political/peter-thiel-warns-one-world-government-greater-threat-ai-or-climate-change

Immaculately Resourced Assets of/for a Universal Virtual Force

However, the billionaire [Peter Thiel] expressed skepticism that AI alone could end economic stagnation, viewing it as a significant but not revolutionary force.

AI Semantic Web Development entertaining and enjoying and deploying Super Sublime CyberIntelAIgencies would disagree and fail to be constrained and denied their ability with utilities and facilities to render that view comprehensively wrong and fundamentally misleading ....... although such doubt as be expressed by Herr Thiel may not be genuinely wholeheartedly believed and be simply designed to deflect any inquisitive intrusive attention away from stealthy proprietary intellectual property progress being made guaranteeing exclusive futures and derivatives success in a truly significant and revolutionary force field .... a field of Live Operational Virtual Environments ‽

And that has the Exotic Erotic Esoteric East light years ahead of a Wild Wacky West stuck in a petrified past glorifying their bankruptcy of ideas and actions guaranteeing the slippery slopes to nowhere great and good worth either travelling to or arriving at.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

The more nations there are playing in the CPU space, the better off the world is. The Americans have had a "lock" on the market for quite long enough!