Bosch has signed an ambitious collaboration agreement in the field of quantum computing with technology giant IBM, one of the main developers of this technology. “This is an R&D collaboration with a time horizon of 10 years,” said the CEO of the German company.
Stephen Hartung. “And we want to be present in its development, even if it is a very forward-looking vision.”
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investment of 10,000 million that they would spend until 2025 on digitization and connectivity, 66% of which would go to “new and promising technologies”, including, of course, quantum computing.
This, considered the next frontier of computing, assumes, theoretically,
exponentially more powerful processing power than current computers, based on binary code. However, it brings its own problems, such as processing a huge amount of data or very strict operational requirements, such as working near absolute zero or in vacuum conditions.
For Bosch, the world’s largest supplier of automotive parts, the capacity of these new computers will allow them to be used as a virtual simulator for the construction of electric propulsion systems – be they batteries, magnets or fuel cells – and to try to meet the need for rare earth metals.
This, of course, makes it possible to save costs in the production of these elements and to reduce the environmental impact of their manufacture, which would guarantee their delivery for longer. Bosch estimates that the total market for quantum computing
could be between $850,000 million and one trillion dollars by 2035.
However, this is still a conceptual solution, which will use IBM computers in the US.
“We don’t feel the need to build our own computer”, said Hartung, “but it is true that in this world it is impossible to develop such advanced technology without cooperation agreements. Ours is just one more example of collaboration between two companies.”
After the departure of Ford and Volkswagen from their autonomous driving joint venture, Argo AI, doubts about this technology have resurfaced. “This is an open world problem,” Hartung said. “We have autonomous systems that work in closed spaces, but to bring them into the real world we have to face complex situations,
which they are not yet ready for».
“In the next generation of vehicles, you’re going to see the development of today’s level 2 and 3 driver assistance systems,” the manager said at his annual trade show.
Bosch connected world, held on the 9th in Berlin. In it, the component manufacturer presented its latest developments in the field of cloud computing, hydrogen batteries for household energy or a new fleet management system that was developed together with Amazon Web Services.
One of the most discussed topics in the presentations was precisely autonomous driving and while participants agreed that “there is money to be made in this segment”, for Hartung, “there are currently few business cases for fully automated driving.”
Source: La Verdad
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