{"id":461980,"date":"2026-06-05T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:08:10","slug":"china-unveils-worlds-first-superfast-quantum-memory-paving-way-for-practical-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461980\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils world\u2019s first superfast quantum memory, paving way for practical computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have created the world\u2019s first superfast memory for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/quantum-computing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">quantum computers<\/a>, solving a critical data-reading bottleneck and paving the way for big-data challenges such as drug discovery and detecting fraudulent financial activities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Quantum computers are expected to solve complex problems at speeds unattainable by traditional computers, and they need an efficient way to access classical data.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Without a high-speed data interface, even the fastest quantum machine is slowed down when forced to process massive classical data sequentially.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team led by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/zhejiang-university?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zhejiang University<\/a>, \u201cQuantum random access memory (QRAM) enables efficient access to classical data for quantum computers and is a prerequisite for many quantum algorithms in achieving quantum speed-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China creates analogue AI chip said to be 1,000 times faster than Nvidia GPU<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Quantum computers use qubits to process information. Unlike traditional computer bits, which can represent either a zero or one, qubits can exist in a \u201csuperposition\u201d state and represent both zero and one simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This peculiar characteristic, along with quantum entanglement, allows quantum computers to perform certain tasks exponentially faster than even the most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have created the world\u2019s first superfast memory for quantum computers, solving a critical data-reading bottleneck and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,20480,607,6006,234189,234186,55388,111,139,69,234185,13950,23718,234187,165115,234188,145,127563],"class_list":["post-461980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-big-data","tag-china","tag-drug-discovery","tag-fraudulent-financial-activities","tag-lu-liqiang","tag-nature-physics","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qram","tag-quantum-computers","tag-quantum-entanglement","tag-quantum-random-access-memory","tag-science-and-technology-daily","tag-superconducting-quantum-processor","tag-technology","tag-zhejiang-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}