Google recently took a major leap in the technology scene as it unveiled its new computing chip, the Quantum Chip. Also called Willow, netizens are now highly curious about what it is and its features. Describing the chip as one of the finest processors ever, Google also mentioned that the Quantum Chip is the product of 10 years of hard work.
Here is everything tech enthusiasts need to know about Willow and what are its major advantages as listed by Google.
What is Google’s Williow?
Willow, Google’s latest Quantum Chip, is a state-of-the-art chip that would help solve complex problems in the least time possible, which the standard computers would take years to solve.
Announcing the launch of Willow, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai took to X (formerly Twitter) and shared the news with the world. He wrote, “Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field.”
Pichai further detailed that this Quantum chip can carry out computation within just 5 minutes which would eventually take other computers 10 septillion years to perform. Additionally, in its blog, Google stated that to check the performance of Willow they used the RCS (random circuit sampling) benchmark. It is the “hardest benchmark” for a quantum computer in today’s time.
In the blog, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, Hartmut Neven stated, “Willow was fabricated in our new, state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Santa Barbara — one of only a few facilities in the world built from the ground up for this purpose.”
Neven also asserted that the number of qubits used enhances the performance of the Quantum Chip. He added, “We published results showing that the more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes.”
