Will Quantum Computer Keep Up With Moore’s Law
Although transistors can’t get smaller, computers can get larger. Although not practical, large powerful computers can be useful. This can be for huge projects, shown by NASA supercomputers.

On the other hand, computers must still progress for everyday use. To do this, innovative ideas must be conjured and created. This could allow people across the world to have a better quality of life. In 1998 an innovative, quantum computer was made for the first time. This has become enhanced since then, proving to be much more powerful.

The key difference with a quantum computer is how the bits work. As said transistors either allow electrons to pass or block them. Depending on the function it performs, the information is given as, 1 or 0. This called a bit. In numbers, this information from transistors can form logic gates e.g AND, OR. These logic gates in numbers can perform basic functions.

In normal computers, bits can be set to one of two values. However, in quantum computers, qubits take bits place. These can be in any proportion of both states (0 and 1) at once. This is called superposition. The problem is once observed the qubit must pick one of either value.

4 classical bits can be in 1 of ²⁴ combinations at a time. However, for qubits, they can exist as all of these values, at once. This is because each qubit can be both 1 and 0. This grows exponentially as the number of qubits grows. At 20 of them, they can already store 1 million values in parallel. Google’s quantum computer has 53 qubits. This means it can do ²⁵³ combinations at a time. For the worlds best supercomputer a difficult calculation could take 10,000 years. Whilst this quantum computer can do it in 200 seconds.

Quantum Computer

The only setback of these computers is their price and size. These computers take billions to make and are very large. This means we still have a long way to go for quantum computers to progress. This could be only available to large companies. Or if they progress enough could become commercial. This could make seemingly impossible everyday things possible.

In conclusion, Moore’s Law may temporarily stunt computing progress. This would mean our steep improvement in the last few years may plateau. However, this does not mean the end of our progress. Innovative computers, e.g. quantum computers, could break through this plateau. These can allow for unprecedented levels of power. Being able to perform huge numbers of logical decision and arithmetic calculations. These could create solutions to huge modern problems. This could be medical, economics or communication-related. The number of qubits in quantum computers begin to increase more rapidly. This could defeat Moore’s Law’s plateau entirely.

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['Tom Healey']
['Future Technology', 'Computer Science', 'Progress', 'Quantum Computing', 'Computers']