If Moore's Law hits a sinkhole...

[Radar]

Originally Posted by mbpark

Radar,

The purpose of quantum computing in random number generation is to make cracking encryption by hostile agencies a lot harder by increasing the entropy of the system . Current hardware-based random number generators just don't scale up to the level you need for 10-40Gbps pipes, and beyond. There are certain customers in corporate America and Europe (think banks, multi-national telecoms, and multi-national pharma) that would pay a lot of money to encrypt their dark fiber and SAN traffic efficiently. Defense is right up there too, but a given.

Of course, the opposite is true. With the right code, any "product of primes" encryption such as RSA would be toast with quantum computing.

GPS would be the best application, as you'd have the ability to use the current satellite system to be significantly more accurate (think fractions of a millimeter).

I still think the Zii is more marketing than product .

I'm with you on all of that. I do think Zii seems to have great possibilities though and is more than marketing. Come on man, you've got to admit real time rendering with ray tracing on a computer setup with about the same footprint as a standard tower is pretty impressive.