Google announces groundbreaking new quantum chip

Published December 10, 2024 3:08pm ET



Google announced a new quantum chip capable of solving in just five minutes a problem so complex that it would take the world’s best supercomputers 10 septillion years to solve. 

To put that into perspective, the average lifespan of a sun such as Earth’s is 10 billion years, so it would take one quadrillion solar lifetimes for the leading supercomputer to do what Google’s Willow can do in five minutes.

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