Google’s Willow quantum processor promises to calculate in 5 minutes what the most powerful supercomputer would take 10 septillions of years

Google has announced its Willow quantum processor, born after 10 years of research and development in Google’s quantum computing division.

Regarding its performance, with 105 QbitsGoogle promises that Willow can do in five minutes what the world’s fastest supercomputer would take 10 septillions of years to do. (10 to the power of 25). This will open a new era in the world of computing, opening up an impressive future and also bringing new challenges and security risks.

This is an impressive evolution if we take into account that 5 years ago, Google was “only” capable of performing calculations in 3.3 minutes that would take 10,000 years on a high-performance supercomputer.

Even so, it must be clarified that the performance is not comparable to 100%, since the way quantum computers work is not the same as that of a traditional computing processor, and these processors would not be capable, at least for now. , to execute traditional tasks or algorithms.

One of the problems of quantum computing is the calculation errors that appeared as the number of qubits in the processor increased. Willow promise solve this problem of quantum computing by being able to self-correct to reduce errors exponentially.

This way, instead of becoming more erratic as the number of Qbits increases, Willow does the opposite and becomes more robust.

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