Intel's quirky new chips are made for quantum computing and machine learning

Quantum computers could be the next big frontier in computing, with companies like Intel, IBM and Google racing to develop the technology. They have the potential to be far more powerful than traditional computers: where a normal bit of information is stored as either a 1 or a 0, a qubit takes advantage of the quirks of quantum physics to store data as 1, 0 or both at the same time. The exponential growth with each added qubit means that a system with 5 qubits is about the equivalent of 32 regular bits.