>IBM is developing four custom ASICs — a decoder, a two-qubit gate controller, a single-qubit controller, and an amplifier — designed to handle quantum control at scale, with these circuits expected to converge around 2029 at the point where power consumption becomes manageable at up to 3 megawatts per system.
The current hotness seems to be based on creating pairs of entangled qubits based on what might be realistically achieved with error correction. Shor's requires thousands of entangled qubits (something like 4000 for 2K RSA and 1500 for 256 bit elliptic curves).
So unless someone comes up with a way to break cryptography using pairs of entangled qubits then this probably isn't relevant.
That one is an approximation rather than returning all millions of exact big integer digits though (the approximation is more useful for real life statistics etc..., but doesn't look like what this article is targeting)
Likely AI-generated. LLMs love putting emojis on lists.
Edit. From Authorship section:
This ksharp interpreter implementation was coded originally by SWE-1.5 and 1.6 with significant contributions from Kimi K-2.5 and 2.6 and Claude Opus/Sonnet 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 based on specifications, direction, prompts, comments and manual fixes provided by Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann.
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