00:00 Speaker A
Not everyone David, obviously follows the space as closely as you. Can you maybe, it might be helpful, just take a beat, remind us the basics of quantum computers and how they’re different than supercomputers?
00:15 David
Yeah, you know, it’s really interesting. Quantum computing, uh at its core is nothing more than a typical system. The only thing really quantum about it, you know, is at the chip level. So it’s at the atomic level that makes it a quantum computer. And so it’s using basically the the natural the states um of physics and quantum, uh to make calculations, and it does this in in a parallel fashion as opposed to in a logical sequence like we see with the CPU. So it operates much more like a GPU in some regards.
00:49 David
Uh but it gives you this this ability to do many, many calculations simultaneously as opposed to uh one step after another.
00:59 Speaker A
I want to get to some picks before that, David, I I I’m also just curious about geopolitical competition here. What what is your sense of who’s in the lead when it comes to this field? Is it the US or China?
01:17 David
You know, it’s it’s definitely challenging challenging to see and we spend a lot of time in this area. We think that the US has a very commanding lead today. Uh but there’s also the things that concern us are the ones that we don’t know about. The ones that aren’t uh as in the market or open about their capabilities. We do know they’re making some really nice progress and China is spending significant uh dollars and investment uh on the quantum computing space, but my suspicion is that the US is still leading in that in that regard and uh we need to make uh additional investments to ensure that we stay in the lead.
