Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
Dr Erik Lucero, lead engineer of Google Quantum AI, points to motherboards while leading media on a tour of the Quantum Computing Lab in September 2022.Dr Erik Lucero, lead engineer of Google Quantum AI, points to motherboards while leading media on a tour of the Quantum Computing Lab in September 2022.
The new chip, called Willow and made in the California beach town of Santa Barbara, is about the dimensions of an After Eight mint, and could supercharge the creation of new drugs by greatly speeding up the experimental phase of development. But there are also fears that without guardrails, the technology has the power to crack even the most sophisticated encryption, undermining computer security.
He said the far greater speed of the new chip than classical computers “lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse”.
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