The Future of Computing: Bits + Neurons + Qubits

 

 

Dr. Dario Gil, Director of Research, IBM

At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, California, USA in February, Dr. Dario Gil of IBM gave an overview of how IBM sees the future of computing. He projects parallel advances in three technologies: conventional processors (“bits”), neural networks for AI (“neurons”), and quantum processors (“qubits”). Rather than any one of these technologies becoming dominant, he predicts major performance advances in all three, with heterogeneous systems incorporating two or more of these addressing critical problems in the computing environment, integrating cloud and edge computing. Near-term applications of quantum computing may be in quantum simulations for materials development, but longer term advances in AI are possible in combination with bits and neurons.

Access a companion article in the ISSCC 2020 Proceedings.

A preprint of this article is also available.

Several other plenary talks from ISSCC 2020 are available.