The Race for Quantum Standards…

As the competitive rulebook plays out there are often two or more new technologies competing for their futures, that emerge from the crowd that have the potential to win-to become the de-facto standard. And sometimes the best technology doesn’t always win. Much of the equation comes down to market penetration, share and brand association as we saw with VHS battling with Betamax in the 1980’s, previously IBM Mainframes competing with distributed mini computing DEC (Digital Equipment Company).

In few cases one or more brands impose their preferred technology model, their stack, their standard as with IOS and Android, who after all squeezed out Blackberry and other brands, creating the big two. However these days it is likely the winners will be the technologies that can be easily implemented and delivers a decent cost/benefit.

The videotape format battle was brutal, that saw SONY use its global reach to muscle JVC who were behind Betamax, which for me was a better proposition and delivered smaller tapes and higher quality, albeit was more expensive. In a consumer world of electrical goods — price became pivatol. Another deciding factor was SONY invested in winning hearts and minds of the then content makers — the recording studios and production companies and encouraged them down the SONY path.

Let the new battle commence…

So here we are again as we enter the Quantum realms — where there are already multiple approaches to Quantum Computing in terms of generating and controlling the…