Google says New Chip ‘Willow’ jumped quantum computing barrier
Google says its researchers developed a new chip, “Willow”, he says, adding that a significant obstacle to quantum computing has been overcome.
By Max A. Cherry
Google Google.u aims to release commercial quantum computing applications within five years, the head of Google’s quantum told Reuters on Wednesday, the 20 -year -old NVIDA’s NVDA.O forecasts.
“We hope that in five years we will see real -world applications that are possible only on quantum computers,” said the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI Hartmut Neon.
Real World Applications Google discusses content science – making high batteries for applications such as electric cars – making new medicines and possibly new energy replacement.
Google’s prediction comes among the wider uncertainty about when such progress will take place. The predictions of investors and experts have been for at least two decades.
For decades, scientists have been discussing quantum computing, which promises to supply machines that are thousands of times more powerful than traditional computers. Traditional computers act on information at a number at a time, while quantum computer “cobits” can represent several numbers together.
Governments and businesses have kept a keen eye on the ability to affect quantum computing’s modern cyberself and other sectors such as finance and healthcare.
Quantum computing resembles artificial intelligence in some ways. Prior to the launch of the Chattagpat in 2022, the AI ​​was considered by most scientists. Scientists were quietly making success to accelerate the field, but there was no understanding that AI would be commercially useful.
Out of two decades
Newodia’s Jensen Huang has said quantum computing is more than five years away. At an analyst event at the CES Trade Show in Las Vegas in January, Huang predicted that practical use for quantum computers was about 20 years left.
Huang said, “If you have said like 15 years … then it will probably be the beginning. We will believe it.”
Huang’s comments increased by a handful of quantum computing stock by about $ 8 billion in market value. The sector was promoted in December when Google announced that it had broken an important challenge in the field with its new chips.
Google has been working on its quantum computing program since 2012 and has designed and made several quantum chips. Using quantum processors, Google said it has been able to solve the problem of computing within minutes, which will take more time than the history of the universe.
Google’s quantum computing scientists announced another step on Wednesday’s way of real -world requests within five years.
In an article published in the scientific journal Nature, scientists said they have discovered a new approach to quantum simulation, which is a step on the way to achieve Google’s goal.
Reporting by Max A. Cherry in San Francisco. To edit by Jerry Doyl
