Google and Volkswagen to Work Together on Quantum Computers
November 07 2017 - 9:46AM
Dow Jones News
By Max Bernhard
Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE) and Alphabet Inc.'s (GOOGL) Google said
Tuesday that they will work together to research the use of quantum
computers in mobility-related fields.
Employees of Volkswagen's IT division and Google will cooperate
to research the development of traffic optimization, new materials
structures, high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and
artificial intelligence for machine learning processes on a quantum
computer provided by Google.
"We at Volkswagen want to be among the first to use quantum
computing for corporate processes as soon as this technology is
commercially available," said Martin Hofmann, chief information
officer of Volkswagen.
Write to Max Bernhard at Max.Bernhard@dowjones.com;
@mxbernhard
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 07, 2017 09:31 ET (14:31 GMT)
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