Videos on the Impact of Quantum Computers

• Unprecedented Computation Speed: Willow completed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes. This same task using today's best supercomputers would take 714 trillion times longer than the age of our Universe. 
• Quantum Error Correction: This addresses the challenge in quantum error correction that has perplexed the field for nearly 30 years. Quantum processors can exponentially reduce errors as they scale with more qubits. [Caltech U (see below) developed a quantum computer array with over 6,000 qubits].

• China just dropped one of the most aggressive hardware moves we’ve seen in the AI race, and it hit the entire industry out of nowhere. A Chinese research team revealed a photonic quantum chip built on a 6-inch thin-film lithium niobate wafer that’s already running inside real data centers. 
• The developers claim that it accelerates certain AI workloads by 1,000 times compared to NVIDIA GPUs, and early deployments are underway across aerospace, biomedicine, and finance. This video breaks down how CHIPX and Turing Quantum built it, why photonics changes everything for data-center performance, and what this means for global competition in AI hardware.

Resources:

Chip and deployment story via South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scien...👉 Technical and production-line details via The Quantum Insider: https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/11...👉 Background on China’s photonic chip manufacturing ramp-up: https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06...👉 Context on China positioning itself in photonic chips and future technologies: https://merics.org/en/comment/china-p...👉 China boosts photonic chip production in bid to overtake rivals: https://manufacturing.asia/building-e...

• Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and science communicator known as the co-creator of string field theory. 
• He is a professor at the City University of New York and often appears on television and radio to explain complex scientific ideas to a broad audience.
• In this video, he makes clear that Quantum computers must work in more than one reality to create their results. 

• 15 recent quantum computing breakthroughs are showcased.
• These advancements span various fields, including drug discovery and climate modeling.
• The video analyzes the progress of leading technology companies in this area.

• FBI  director warns that China is actively hacking U.S. military and industrial targets, as well as critical American infrastructure, through computer-based attacks. 
• This threat will become more severe and efficient once China possesses better quantum computing capabilities.