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25 Microseconds vs. 10⁴² Years: Inside China's Jiuzhang 4.0 — the Quantum Machine That Just Redrew the Map of Global Computing Power
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25 Microseconds vs. 10⁴² Years: Inside China's Jiuzhang 4.0 — the Quantum Machine That Just Redrew the Map of Global Computing Power

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25 Microseconds vs. 10⁴² Years: Inside China's Jiuzhang 4.0 — the Quantum Machine That Just Redrew the Map of Global Computing Power

On May 13, 2026, the international journal Nature published a paper whose central claim was so extreme that it required a moment of cognitive recalibration. A team of Chinese scientists, led by quantum physicist Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China, reported that their newest photonic quantum computer — Jiuzhang 4.0 — had completed a Gaussian boson sampling calculation in 25 microseconds. The same task, the researchers estimated, would require El Capitan, currently the world's most powerful classical supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, more than 10⁴² years to finish. That is a trillion trillion trillion trillion years — a span of time roughly 10³² times longer than the current age of the universe.

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