Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 11, 2022: IBM has announced that LG Electronics had joined the IBM Quantum Network to “advance the industry applications of quantum computing.”
By joining the IBM Quantum Network, IBM will provide LG Electronics access to IBM’s quantum computing systems, as well as to IBM’s quantum expertise and Qiskit, IBM’s open-source quantum information software development kit, said IBM.
LG Electronics aims to explore applications of quantum computing in industry to support big data, artificial intelligence, connected cars, digital transformation, IoT, and robotics applications – all of which require processing a large amount of data.
With IBM Quantum, LG can leverage quantum computing hardware and software advances and applications as they emerge, in accordance with IBM’s quantum roadmap. By leveraging IBM Quantum technology, LG will provide workforce training to its employees, permitting LG to investigate how potential breakthroughs can be applied to its industry.
For those who don’t know – Quantum computing is a revolutionary evolution in computation. While classical computers calculate in bits that represent 0 and 1, quantum computers use qubits that harness quantum mechanical phenomena such as interference and entanglement in computation to solve problems that are fundamentally intractable for classical computers. As a result, quantum computing is well suited to help explore new approaches of solving problems.
There are more than 170 clients, including LG Electronics, Fortune 500 companies, startups, academic institutions and research labs working with IBM Quantum technology to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications, said IBM.