A few days ago, Iran unveiled its first quantum processor… which turned out not to be a quantum processor at all. Iran showcased its first quantum computer, which turned out to be a developer board priced at 700 euros and available for purchase on Amazon.
During the event at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy, Rear Admiral Habibullah Sayari presented a board with multiple connectors and a tiny radiator, claiming it to be Iran’s first product with quantum processing algorithms and the first quantum processor for civilian and military use. This solution supposedly aimed to “counter navigation deception in detecting surface vessels using quantum algorithms.” Iran unveiled its first quantum computer… which turned out to be a developer board priced at 700 euros, available for purchase on Amazon.
However, it raised doubts among knowledgeable individuals, as the appearance of a single board was sufficient to make them skeptical of the claims being made. As it turned out, the Iranian army’s Rear Admiral was actually holding not a quantum PC, but merely a Digilent ZedBoard Zynq-7000 developer board, featuring a dual-core Arm processor with Cortex-A9 cores and 512 MB of DDR3 memory. Iran unveiled its first quantum computer… which turned out to be a developer board priced at 700 euros, available for purchase on Amazon.
In fact, the ZedBoard logo is clearly visible on the board itself.
