I was reading through the announcement from Google on their new quantum chip, called Willow.
Two huge steps forward are mentioned, and I can’t even get my head around it. Are they really saying that quantum chips can out-rival the large supercomputers of today?
- The first is that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years.
- Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.
Check out the article here: