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January 7[edit]

Do quantum computers have display like home PC?[edit]

Do quantum computers have display like home PC? Rizosome (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Googling "quantum computer", the displays look more like big wide-screen TVs. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:37, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are no quantum computers as of today; their development is still in the technical stage. As of 2021, only two prototype quantum processors have yet been created, the Sycamore processor and the Jiuzhang (quantum computer). There is no viable device one could call a "quantum computer" in the sense of a commercial model yet. Presumably, the user interface will resemble other computers, so there will be input and control devices, graphical displays, etc. But we aren't at that stage yet. --Jayron 32 15:56, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They could have whatever display their designers wanted. Any real "quantum computer" is almost certainly going to consist of a quantum processor along with one or more "traditional" processors for handling the boring non-quantum stuff. Most consumer "computing devices" today already have multiple processor cores along with dedicated computers for offloading things like networking. A lot of servers are multi-CPU. --47.152.93.24 (talk) 20:53, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]