Willow Chip : Google
Google has announced a significant advancement in quantum computing as it unveiled its next-generation chip called ‘Willow’.
- Willow Chip is a new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip developed by Google.
- The components of the chip include single and two-qubit gates, qubit reset, and readout that have been engineered and integrated to ensure that there is no lag between any two components as that may adversely impact system performance.
- It was able to solve a complex mathematical problem in just five minutes — a task that would take classical computers longer than the history of the universe.
- It performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years.
- It operates using superconducting transmon qubits—tiny electrical circuits exhibiting quantum behaviour at extremely low temperatures.
- These circuits are engineered to function like artificial atoms in a quantum state.
