China May Have Just Taken the Lead in the Quantum Computing Race 32 minutes ago nextgov.com Participants view a quantum computing prototype model during the 2021 Quantum Industry Conference in Hefei, China, Sept. 18, 2021. Xinhua via Getty Images / Han Xu China may have taken the lead in the race to practical quantum computing with a recent announcement that it has shattered a record for solving a complex problem. In 2019, Google reported that its 53-qubit Sycamore processor had completed in 3.3 minutes a task that would have taken a traditional supercomputer at least 2.5 days . Last October,…