{"id":65660,"date":"2025-08-13T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65660\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:56:09","slug":"new-state-of-the-art-quantum-computer-switched-on-in-harwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65660\/","title":{"rendered":"New state-of-the-art quantum computer switched on in Harwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking to BBC Radio 4<\/a>, Dr Ballance said quantum computers were “the most powerful form of computer allowed by the laws of physics”.<\/p>\n

“The hardware is fundamentally very different,” he said.<\/p>\n

“[It] just calculates problems in a very different way and a conventional computer is much closer to an abacus in conventional compute power than it is to a quantum computer.”<\/p>\n

The company said the delivery marked “a significant step forward in making commercially valuable quantum computing a reality” and “ensuring the UK is equipped with the compute power to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges”.<\/p>\n

“For that right now, if you want to build a better battery, you mostly have to go into a lab and test out some chemicals,” Dr Ballance said.<\/p>\n

“Those kind of problems we’ve known for 50 years how to write down – we just can’t solve them on conventional computers. <\/p>\n

“And quantum computers will allow us to take a lot of that work from the lab into a problem we can now solve on a computer.”<\/p>\n

He said a conventional supercomputer “might use the output of a small power plant to power it”. <\/p>\n

“Our quantum computer uses less power than an electric kettle.<\/p>\n

“The systems we’re building next year, which will outperform … the largest supercomputers humanity will ever build, will still use less power than just one server rack in a standard data centre.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Dr Ballance said quantum computers were “the most powerful form of computer allowed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-65660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}