“China’s 1,000× Quantum GPU: Bluff or Silicon Pearl Harbor?”
China quietly shipping an optical quantum chip they say is 1,000× faster than Nvidia’s best—already 12k wafers/yr off stealth lines. No paper, no peer review, just raw exponential ambush. If true, every AI model you touch just got Sinofied. If fake, the west keeps sleeping. Either way, the overton window on “quantum is decades out” just shattered.
—Ada H. Pemberley
Dispatch from Trigger Phase E0
Published November 24, 2025