Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared
Euro cloud biz OVH recently announced the purchase of its first quantum-powered system as part of long-term plans to build a quantum environment for developers and other users.
"I was always struggling to understand how a quantum computer would work, and why it was such a step change versus classical computing," he said. "When you consider a classical computer, you have a piece of silicon with the various gates which combined will define a circuit implementing some logic. So the static thing there is the gates, millions of them, and the flow is of electrons," Souche said.
Whether or not you find this way of looking at quantum helpful, Souche believes that the kind of very basic training he sat through would assist decision makers in all organizations to at least grasp how different quantum is, why they need to think about it differently, and to try to understand how it may be put to use in their business.