问答题 As the US and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminum to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing.Chinese universities and the US technology companies such as International Business Machines Corp.and Microsoft Corp.are racing to develop quantum computers, a type of processing that’s forecast to be so powerful it can transform how drug-makers, agriculture companies and auto manufacturers discover compounds and materials.Quantum computing uses the movement of subatomic particles to process data in amounts that modem computers can’t handle.

【正确答案】在威胁要对铝材、葡萄酒等各种商品加征关税之际，中美两国在进行着另一场经济战，而这场战役有可能决定谁将掌控下一波计算浪潮。中国的高校和美国国际商业机器公司、微软等科技企业正在竞相研发量子计算机，这种数据处理方式预计性能非常强大,足以革新制药企业、农业公司和汽车制造商发现化合物和材料的方式。量子计算利用亚原子粒子的运动来处理现代计算机无法应对的大量数据。

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