JERUSALEM, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Israel will develop and build its first quantum computer at a cost of 200 million new shekels (62 million U.S. dollars), the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) announced Tuesday.
The project will be funded by the IIA and the Directorate of Defense R&D (MAFAT) at Israel's Defense Ministry, as part of a national quantum science and technologies program, the IAA said in a statement.
Quantum computational ability will lay the technological foundation for an Israeli ecosystem that will lead future developments in security, economics, technology, engineering and science, it added.
The IIA will focus on building and developing the quantum computational infrastructure for running calculations directly or via cloud access.
MAFAT will establish a national quantum center that will collaborate with academia and industry, and with the National Infrastructure Forum for Research and Development.
The center will deal with the numerous layers in developing a quantum processor, including hardware, control, optimization, algorithmics and interfacing aspects.
Quantum computer, unlike a classic one, is based on advanced processing system that builds quantum mechanics and enables simultaneous processing of a vast number of calculations. ■
