What is Google Willow quantum chip? Here is everything you need to know
1 month ago

What is Google Willow quantum chip? Here is everything you need to know

India Today  

Google has taken a major step forward in the world of quantum computing with the introduction of its new Willow quantum chip. But what exactly is a quantum computing, Willow quantum chip and what will it be used for? Google has positioned its Willow quantum chip as a big breakthrough in the journey toward large-scale quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, who leads Google’s Quantum AI lab, told BBC that the Willow chip could soon be applied in some practical applications.

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What is a quantum chip?
1 day, 21 hours ago

What is a quantum chip?

The Hindu  

In recent years, the field of quantum computing has been experiencing fast growth, with technological advances and large-scale investments regularly making the news. For a quantum chip to stay stable long enough to perform complex computational tasks, it needs high-fidelity qubits. It will likely take a few years to figure out how to put several logical qubits together into a …

Willow is a small chip for Google but a quantum leap for computing
1 week, 4 days ago

Willow is a small chip for Google but a quantum leap for computing

The Hindu  

Google recently unveiled its latest quantum processor, named ‘Willow’. This exponential growth in the information required to represent qubits’ states and the superposition of states are the major reasons why quantum computers could be more efficient and powerful than classical computers. Like a classical computer, a quantum computer is also a collection of qubits and a host of physical operations …

AI, quantum computing and chip leaps transcend science fiction
2 weeks, 6 days ago

AI, quantum computing and chip leaps transcend science fiction

Hindustan Times  

In my younger years, teens and perhaps even younger, visual and written science fiction was a decidedly aspirational periscope. In just the past few days, Google’s unveiled a quantum chip thats a sort of breakthrough, Nvidia’s unveiled an affordable yet astonishingly powerful Generative AI supercomputer, OpenAI’s o1 model is out of preview, and Google’s raised that move with their own …

Is Google’s Willow really a ‘wow’ moment for quantum computers?
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Is Google’s Willow really a ‘wow’ moment for quantum computers?

Live Mint  

“Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum-computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an X post on 9 December. Unlike conventional computers that use binary digits, quantum computers use ‘qubits’ and are therefore that much more powerful. According …

Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer

Daily Mail  

Google's quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in 'the idea that we live in a multiverse.' Calling Willow's performance 'astonishing,' the leader and founder of Google Quantum AI team, physicist Hartmut Neven, said its high-speed result 'lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes.' Willow is …

Google’s quantum boost doesn’t really compute
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Google’s quantum boost doesn’t really compute

Live Mint  

One of Google’s science projects is paying off in a big way, albeit way early. Alphabet, parent company of the internet search giant, has seen its stock jump nearly 12% this week, since Google announced a new in-house chip called Willow designed to power quantum computing. “The next challenge for the field is to demonstrate a first ‘useful, beyond-classical’ computation …

Google's willow to usher in a new tech order
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Google's willow to usher in a new tech order

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Will Google’s monumental tech revolution—the next-gen quantum computing chip, Willow—bring about civilizational change, or will it usher in a paradigm shift in services and applications across critical areas? On December 9, the tech giant announced Willow, a next-generation quantum computing chip that “performed a computation in under five minutes, which would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ years—or …

Google unveils Willow, the world's fastest quantum chip, to revolutionise supercomputing
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1 month ago

Google unveils Willow, the world's fastest quantum chip, to revolutionise supercomputing

India TV News  

Google has made headlines in the world of advanced computing by introducing its new supercomputer chip called Willow, which is being hailed as the fastest quantum computing chip ever created. The announcement was made by Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, on his social media account, and even drew interest from Elon Musk, who responded to Pichai’s post. In his …

Google says it has made a chip that can be more than a billion times faster than the fastest supercomputers
1 month ago

Google says it has made a chip that can be more than a billion times faster than the fastest supercomputers

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google says it has made a new quantum computing chip that can be …

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough
1 month ago

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

Raw Story  

Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality. A custom chip called "Willow" does in minutes what it would take leading supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete, according to Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven. Neven's team of about 300 people at …

Google Unveils Quantum Computing Chip Willow That Outpaces Supercomputers
1 month ago

Google Unveils Quantum Computing Chip Willow That Outpaces Supercomputers

Deccan Chronicle  

Google has announced a groundbreaking advancement in quantum computing as it unveiled its latest quantum chip called Willow. “Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe,” Google said in a blogpost. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, …

What Google’s Willow means for supercomputing and you
1 month ago

What Google’s Willow means for supercomputing and you

Firstpost  

Google has claimed that ‘Willow,’ its new quantum computing chip, can solve a math equation in five minutes that the fastest supercomputers would take 10 septillion years to do. Experts say that though supercomputers could potentially revolutionise fields such as medicine, battery technology, materials science, financial modelling and Artificial Intelligence in the future, their benefits are years if not decades …

Google's new quantum chip is mindboggling, dwarves the fastest supercomputers we have today by miles
1 month ago

Google's new quantum chip is mindboggling, dwarves the fastest supercomputers we have today by miles

Firstpost  

Google’s Willow quantum processor claims to solve problems in 5 minutes what the world’s fastest super computer will take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Image Credit: Google Google has unveiled its groundbreaking quantum chip, Willow, which claims to solve a problem in just five minutes that would take the world’s fastest supercomputers a staggering ten septillion years—that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, if you were wondering …

Google unveils Willow quantum chip, cracking computing challenge with new chip
1 month ago

Google unveils Willow quantum chip, cracking computing challenge with new chip

The Hindu  

Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe. Like other tech giants such as Microsoft and International Business Machines, Alphabet's Google is chasing quantum computing because it …

Google's new quantum chip solves in 5 minutes what would take a classical computer billions of years
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1 month ago

Google's new quantum chip solves in 5 minutes what would take a classical computer billions of years

India Today  

Google announced on Monday a significant advancement in quantum computing as it unveiled its next-generation chip called Willow. This new chip, developed at the company’s quantum lab in Santa Barbara, California, 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. “Willow performed …

Google says computational power of its new quantum chip Willow suggests we may live in a multiverse
1 month ago

Google says computational power of its new quantum chip Willow suggests we may live in a multiverse

India Today  

In a monumental leap for science and technology, Google on Monday unveiled its next-generation quantum computing chip called Willow. The staggering speed of quantum computations aligns with the idea that quantum computers may operate by performing calculations across multiple parallel universes simultaneously, a concept first proposed by physicist David Deutsch. While this remains a theoretical notion, Willow’s astonishing capabilities lend …

Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai geek out over Google's new quantum chip Willow
1 month ago

Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai geek out over Google's new quantum chip Willow

India Today  

Google’s quantum chip, Willow, has sent ripples through the tech world. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, proudly announced this milestone on his X account, describing Willow as a “state-of-the-art quantum chip” capable of scaling up while reducing errors — a feat considered nearly impossible until now. Pichai casually floated the idea of building a “quantum cluster in space” with Musk’s Starship, …

Google claims quantum computing breakthrough
5 years, 2 months ago

Google claims quantum computing breakthrough

LA Times  

Google said an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years. Google announced it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research, saying an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years. Google’s leaked …

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