Google claims computer breakthrough with ‘quantum supremacy’ machine

Published October 23, 2019 3:21pm ET



Google scientists say they have made a breakthrough in quantum computing and published the results of what they believe could be the future of computers.

The company claimed in a Wednesday blog post that it had built a machine that “performed the target computation in 200 seconds” that would “take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output.”

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