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by pier25·10y ago·view on hn ↗
I meant laptops, mobile devices, etc.

Sure, these things are huge today, but we have now in our pockets more power than was available in a Cray super computer from the 80s.

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Quantum computing isn't just a faster tech. It's a very different means of answering very specific questions. I cannot see how it would ever be useful for something like a GPU running a game, or a CPU running a macro on a large spreadsheet file. I could see a use for a quantum computing module attached to a computer much like a graphics card, but I cannot see how a quantum processor would do the role of a CPU. Given that, I don't see a market for it in everyday computing.
Could you expand on that? Is it a matter of efficiency like running graphics calculations on a CPU?