Google has claimed it can now solve a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
The results released Monday came from a new chip called Willow that has 105 “qubits”, which are the building blocks of quantum computers. Qubits are fast but error-prone, because they can be jostled by something as small as a subatomic particle from events in outer space.As more qubits are packed onto a chip, those errors can add up to make the chip no better than a conventional computer chip. So, since the 1990s, scientists have been working on quantum error-correction.
“We are past the breakeven point,” Hartmut Neven, who leads the Google Quantum AI unit, said in an interview.
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