On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 23:46:56 UTC, Anon wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 20:32:59 UTC, Assi Zanafi wrote:
Quantum CPU before x86_128 ? what do you think ?
I really think that x86_64 is the last "classic architecture".
Intel will never make x86 with 128 bits addresses. Qbytes will
raise before.
I don't know which will come first, but QPUs will not obsolete
CPUs and GPUs. QPUs are not just faster CPUs. In a very similar
manner to how GPUs are better than CPUs for some (but not all)
tasks, QPUs will be better for a number of problems, but many
algorithms will not see any benefit from use of a QPU. Future
computers will have a CPU, GPU, and QPU, each used in tandem
for the things each is good at.
My understanding of QPUs agrees with this - they're a
fundamentally different usage model, and using them as the
primary processor in a system is infeasible (right now) at
present.
