Google’s new Willow quantum chip has broken new ground in an important random circuit sampling … [+]
Google has chalked up several amazing quantum computing records with its newest quantum 105-qubit superconducting chip called Willow. This performance is no surprise, considering Google’s heritage of record-setting quantum chips, reaching back to Foxtail in 2017, Bristlecone in 2018 and Sycamore in 2019.
Google announced Willow last month, and I think it is necessary to reemphasize the importance of this research after Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, recently remarked that quantum computing likely won’t be useful for another 20 years. Granted, there remains a lot of…