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Does the block reward get halved every 4 years regardless of hardware advancements?

Is the invention of a faster computer (let's say a quantum computer) or the lack of advancements in computing power (let's say it takes a decade to make any progress greater than incremental increases on currently technology) capable of affecting the amount of time it takes to halve the block reward?

In other words, does the block reward get halved every 4 years, regardless of how much the hardware available is or isn't progressing?