The federal government will invest $40 million in a Toronto company to help it develop the “computer of the future,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Jan. 23.
“As many of you know, I get really excited by quantum computing,” Trudeau said while visiting the installations of Xanadu Quantum Technologies.
The prime minister said the company had just achieved “quantum advantage” with a machine that can process faster than the world’s fastest computer.
“If you gave a specific problem to a classical supercomputer, it might take 9000 years for them to solve it. The quantum computer can do it in less than a second,” he added….