Google unveils new quantum computing chip: Clock ticking for crypto encryption?

Google’s Quantum AI team has revealed its new quantum computing chip, capable of solving a computational problem in less than five minutes — the same problem that would take one of the best supercomputers around 10 septillion years to solve.

The chip, known as Willow, can exponentially correct errors and process certain computations at a mind-boggling pace, Hartmut Neven, Google’s Quantum AI lead, said in a Dec. 9 blog.

“This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe,” he said.