Just read the google thing, 54 qbits, spat out a huge number that isn't really random, no practical application not programmable as such. You can send pulses to change the states so only useable if you can break your algorithm into a pulse so it can just about count big whoop!
That's a breakdown of the news article that comes up on my Google feed. They all went break through, got excited then realised actually kinda a let down
"Using a quantum computer, researchers at the information-technology giant had carried out in a smidgen over three minutes a calculation that would take Summit, the world’s current-best classical supercomputer, 10,000 years to execute." My first thought was to wonder about the impact of QC on the backtesting of complex strategies with multiple inputs and large ranges of values for the inputs. Would welcome thoughts of those with more experience in this area...
Cant do it never will took years to build a QC with 54 bits or ram same as 108bits of regular ram! Your computer has billions of bits, you cant program logic,very fast abacus only. I dispute the 10,000 aswell, after all pulse had to be sent, va!ues of Qbits read and stored on a normal computer, surely it won't take much longer to simulate Qbits flipping.