Dec 10, 2024 12:36 PM IST
Willow was created at Google’s new, state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Santa Barbara, CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned.
Google has unveiled ‘Willow,’ its newest quantum chip, with ‘state-of-the-art performances’ across various metrics.
The Willow chip (Courtesy: Google)
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent firm Alphabet, wrote on X, “We see Willow as an important step in our journey to build a useful quantum computer with practical application in areas like drug discovery, fusion energy, battery design + more.”
Here’s all about Google’s Willow chip:
(1.) According to Pichai, Willow can reduce quantum computing’s errors exponentially, even as Google scales up its use of qubits (units of computation in quantum computers).
(2.) He also said the chip took less than five minutes to perform a standard benchmark computation, while Frontier, one of the fastest supercomputers today, would complete the same task in 10 ‘septillion years.’
(3.) The chip was constructed within the tech large’s new, state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Santa Barbara, one in all only some amenities on the planet constructed from the bottom up for this goal.
(4.) Willow’s 105 qubits assist it give ‘best-in-class performance’ throughout quantum error correction and random circuit sampling (RCS). It is efficiency is ~5x enchancment over Google’s earlier technology of chips.
(5.) Willow, Pichai said, is a ‘major step’ on a journey that he began 12 years in the past by founding Google AI. “The vision was to build a useful, large-scale quantum computer that could harness quantum mechanics,” the Indian-origin chief govt of Google and Alphabet mentioned.
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