On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, Greg Price wrote:
On 17/01/2024 6:38 am, Giuseppe Vitillaro wrote:
The word "puntglio" is when you insist on a
point just because you are not likely to admit
you were wrong, even against your own interest.
I'll suggest "bloody-minded"...
By the way, going off-topic now, for what
I may understand of IBM in these days, the
corporation, "mom", may be on the border
of leaving even from the mainframe businness.
IBM defintely has the most advanced technology,
I'm aware about, for "real" quantum computing.
From the announces, a modular quantum chip,
133 qubits entangled, is almost on the line
(2025) of becoming a commercial product and
IBM seems to expect a path which will lead
to quantum processor up to thousands of
entangled qubits before 2030. Such a modular
quantum technology let to foresee some sort
of "quantum mainframe", an architecture which
will mix the classical model with a bunch
of quantum registers of growing length and depth
for advanced quantum computing.
It looks like a pattern we have already seen
at beginning of the sixty, when batch mainframes
was just rented, for a lot of money, to big
companies. At that time IBM was almost
the only owner of the mainframe technology.
If this even become true, mainframes would
lose economical interest for IBM in a very
short time, it may happen, as happened for PC,
that some sort of "Lenovo Company" will replace
BigBlue in the commercial field of classical
mainframes.
Wondering if what I've in mind may really happen
in the timeframe from our days to 2040.
Peppe.
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