Skip to content
News
Why Microsoft Says You Should Start Prepping for Quantum Computing Now – CBS 60 Minutes • Inside the quantum computer race
January 16, 2025/
At the most basic level: Today’s computers (and supercomputers) do what they’re told to do using binary codes and bits—represented as a 0 or a 1. Quantum computers let those bits be both 0 and 1 at the same time. That allows them to perform complex simulations in a fraction of the time.
Today’s supercomputers are fast, but last December, Google announced that its quantum computer could solve a problem that would take supercomputers around 10 septillion years—longer than the universe has been around—in just five minutes. Just five years prior, it had claimed a quantum computer could solve a 10,000-year task in that amount of time.
(
