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Can Steel Really Beat Titanium?

Of course, we need to douse the hype with some cold water. Great lab numbers don’t automatically mean great factory numbers. Corrosion tests, electrochemical characterization, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy — academic metrics like these are a world away from an industrial electrolyzer running in real seawater for thousands of hours straight.

The Photon Maze: How on Earth is This Thing So Fast?

To get why Jiuzhang 4.0 is such a monster, you first need to understand one thing: it’s not the same species as the chip in your phone or the laptop on your desk. Imagine a traditional computer like a hyper-diligent delivery guy. He can only carry one package at a time, but he runs insanely fast, billions of trips per second. Looks impressive.

So What’s China’s Secret Sauce?

There are four main race tracks in quantum computing: superconducting, photonic, trapped ions, and neutral atoms. China is currently the only country on Earth that has achieved “quantum computational advantage” on two of the most important tracks – both photonic and superconducting. On the photonic side, we have the Jiuzhang family.