🛳️ Quantum computer breakthrough, nuclear icebreaker vessel, stealth jet smashes radar evasion

Addressing the growing energy consumption of modern computing, researchers have developed a new approach to quantum circuit design.

The current computing technologies suffer from a critical challenge, i.e., the increasing power demands of increasingly complex devices.

The new circuit design promises energy savings of up to 51% and addresses the escalating power demands of modern computing.

“The proposed designs are compared with state-of-the-art methods and found to be better in terms of cost of realization,” claimed the study. Let's take a closer look at this Must Read.  

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⚛️ Breakthrough quantum computer circuit design cuts power use by 51%

The study focuses on the principle of energy dissipation during information processing. As physicist Rolf Landauer theorized, every bit of information lost during computation must be converted into a minimum amount of heat.

This link between computation and energy loss has presented an obstacle in the development of more efficient computing systems. The research team, led by Wei Shi, concentrated their efforts on optimizing multiplication operations, a fundamental process in numerous computing applications.

They developed six new types of circuit building blocks, termed “parity-preserving reversible blocks.”

🛳️ Yakutia: Russia unveils 8th nuclear icebreaker vessel to rule seas

Russia has announced the completion of the fourth Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker – named Yakutia.

The massive nuclear-powered vessel’s completion was marked with a ceremony hoisting the Russian national flag on it. Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation’s (Rosatom) FSUE Atomfloat will be operating the icebreaker vessel.

The vessel aims to serve two purposes – the first is to help Russia’s economic prowess by helping it expand operations in the sea, and the second is to boost its nuclear-powered fleet.

🛬 China’s 6th-gen stealth jet smashes radar evasion military standard

China has reportedly revealed the new testing standard to measure sixth-generation stealth performance. The team has offered much harsher evaluation standards than what the military currently uses.

Their innovation is pushing limitations of stealth technologies against multi-angle radar illumination across all frequency bands, according to a report.

The team led by Zhou Hai, a researcher with the stealth department of China’s AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, maintains that the stealth material should be capable of absorbing high-frequency electromagnetic waves from advanced military radars. 

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