Recently, a research team led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Engineering Research Center of Parallel Computer Technology, successfully developed the quantum computing prototype 'Jiuzhang'. This achievement marks China’s first milestone in quantum computing research—quantum computational supremacy (a term coined by U.S. physicist John Preskill, also known as 'quantum supremacy'). Based on quantum superposition, quantum computers can vastly outperform any classical computer on specific tasks. The results were published on December 4 in the prestigious international scientific journal Science.
Experimental results show that 'Jiuzhang' solves a specific problem 100 trillion times faster than 'Fugaku', currently the world’s fastest supercomputer, and is also equivalently 10 billion times faster than Google’s 53-qubit quantum computing prototype 'Sycamore', unveiled last year—successfully demonstrating quantum computational supremacy.
Last updated: 2026-03-08