A Once-in-a-Lifetime Market Opportunity: Is Alphabet or Microsoft Winning the Quantum Computing Race?

Similar to how artificial intelligence (AI) investing has been one of the biggest market drivers over the past few years, quantum computing could be another massive investing wave. Considering that traditional computing has been around for a long time, and the first personal computer could have been purchased 50 years ago, quantum computing has the chance to be a generational investing trend if it takes the same amount of time to be implemented.Many companies are vying for the top spot in this lucrative field, ranging from smaller pure plays to the most established big tech companies. Two of the big tech companies that have captured the most quantum computing headlines are Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Both of these tech giants have announced innovative quantum computing breakthroughs over the past three months, but is either of them clearly ahead in this important race?First, let's discuss why quantum computing is a big deal. Traditional computing transmits information in bits, which come in the form of either a 0 or a 1. Quantum computing transmits information in qubits, which can better be described as the probability of information being a 0 or 1. Because qubits aren't exactly a 0 or a 1 but instead a superposition between a 0 or a 1, they can hold infinitely more information than a bit. On the flip side, there are inherent errors in the system because qubits don't have an exact 0 or 1 answer.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool