A strange new kind of computer is under development that is almost too complex to describe.

It will have unimaginable power and will easily outperform today’s supercomputers – provided of course it can be made to work at all.

Quantum computers are at the early stage of development, but look promising enough to attract the interest of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Google and the Universities Space Research Association.

Canadian based D-Wave is a quantum computer development company right in the middle of this, producing early prototype quantum devices in the 10 years since it was established.

The company’s chief scientist and co-founder Eric Ladizinsky is in Belfast and Dublin this week to give talks on how far things have progressed with quantum computing.

“Quantum computing represents a paradigm shift, a radical change in the way we do computing and at a scale that has unimaginable power,” Ladizinsky said in advance of his talks.

He fully believes that quantum computing could revolutionise the information age and have as big an impact on society as the conventional computer already has.

“It will be able to do computation that would be forbidden on the computers we build today,” he said.

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