GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

(IonQ Illustration) IonQ has opened up its most advanced quantum computing platform for public availability through Amazon’s cloud-based Braket Direct Program , even as the Maryland-based company gears up to produce even more advanced hardware at a Seattle-area manufacturing facility.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

IonQ, one of the hardware partners for the Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, uses a specialized type of chip known as a linear ion trap. Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform , Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. IonQ Photo via AWS).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire. AWS Photo). “Our people have been working there, which has been great. AWS Photo). ”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

. “Things like being able to do quantum machine learning on sparse data — we just can’t do that using classical hardware. ” Some companies, including as Google , IBM and Microsoft , are developing quantum hardware that’s based on superconducting circuits. .”

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

I wrote device drivers for the IBM PC, as well as Apple Mac IIs and SEs.”. Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

Microsoft’s licensing costs are a large part of our budget, as are the maintenance and licensing costs we pay to Oracle, IBM, ESRI, and many other vendors. But I’m somewhat baffled that any CIO of a large government would seriously consider using open source software for our mission critical systems and services.

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