Science Alert September 28, 2019
An international team of researchers (USA – Purdue University, Japan) has developed hardware for a ‘probabilistic computer’ which solves quantum problems using a p-bit which can only be a 1 or a 0, but they can switch between those two states very quickly and p-bits work at room temperature. By carefully controlling these fluctuations, scientists can tackle calculations of a kind that are generally considered to be quantum computing problems. They modified MRAM device to present a proof-of-concept experiment for probabilistic computing. Factorization of integers up to 945 was demonstrated using eight correlated p-bits, and the results show good agreement with theoretical predictions…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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