|Author: Ji Yang (Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Sciences) This article is excerpted from Physics, Issue 5, 2022 Current middle schools do not teach computation (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are excluded), and universities generally do not involve computation in the first two years. Many university students, including second-year students in science and engineering, … Read more
In June 2004, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy released the latest global supercomputer list at that time, ranking the “Sunway 4000A” supercomputer developed by Sunway Computer Company in tenth place, with a computing speed of 80.61 trillion operations per second. In April 2005, the “Loongson 2” CPU, China’s first … Read more
News 1: ARM processors have made a significant impact,taking the top spot in the TOP500 supercomputer rankings Historically, supercomputer processors have been chosen among Intel, AMD, and IBM, while ARM architecture processors were often considered too weak and largely overlooked, only appearing in consumer-grade products. However, this situation has recently changed, as the Fujitsu supercomputer … Read more
In 2016, the first batch of quantum computers realized programming with advanced user interfaces, enabling the execution of any quantum algorithm. These quantum computers were designed with a small scale, possessing only a limited number of qubits. However, large companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft, as well as some startups, share a common ultimate goal: … Read more
