Google has unveiled Willow, its latest quantum computing chip, claiming it can perform tasks that normally take the fastest supercomputers an unthinkable amount of time, in just under five minutes.

The tech giant’s announcement comes as the race to bring quantum computers to market heats up, with companies including IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia investing billions into the next-gen technology. Google says that Willow can significantly reduce errors or disruptions at the quantum level during computations as more qubits are used in real-time.

“Errors are one of the greatest challenges in quantum computing since qubits, the units of computation in quantum computers, have a tendency to rapidly exchange information with their environment, making it difficult to protect the information needed to complete a computation,” Google Quantum AI founder and lead Hartmut Neven said in a statement. “Typically, the more qubits you use, the more errors will occur, and the system becomes classical,” meaning that the system losses its quantum properties like superposition and entanglement, often due to quantum noise.

By addressing this major challenge in quantum error correction, Google aims to make quantum computers reliable and practical enough to use in a production environment.

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Author: Jason Nelson