{"id":201165,"date":"2024-12-10T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/google-announces-quantum-computing-chip-breakthrough"},"modified":"2024-12-10T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:24:26","slug":"google-announces-quantum-computing-chip-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/google-announces-quantum-computing-chip-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-announces-quantum-computing-chip-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has unveiled a quantum computing chip, \u201cWillow,\u201d capable of performing tasks in minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years. This breakthrough in error correction marks a significant step towards practical quantum computing, with potential applications in drug discovery, fusion energy, and climate change solutions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A custom chip called \u201cWillow\u201d does in minutes what it would take leading supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete, according to Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWritten out, there is a 1 with 25 zeros,\u201d Neven said of the time span while briefing journalists. \u201cA mind-boggling number.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled a quantum computing chip, \u201cWillow,\u201d capable of performing tasks in minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years. This breakthrough in error correction marks a significant step towards practical quantum computing, with potential applications in drug discovery, fusion energy, and climate change solutions. Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}