CES 2018: Intel gives glimpse into mind-blowing future of computing

There’s a race brewing in Silicon Valley to create the best quantum computer — one that could change the world by making the impossible possible — and some big gains in that race were just announced at CES.

Intel CEI Brian Krzanich announced Monday evening in a CES keynote presentation that the company is neck-in-neck with other competitors in the race to make universal quantum computers that can solve problems that are impossible on today’s supercomputers. The semiconductor giant is competing against Google, IBM and other companies to reach “quantum supremacy,” the marker at which universal quantum computers outpace traditional computers that represents an important Kitty Hawk moment for data processing.