Google has announced a new chip it considers to be a major milestone on the road to the future of computing.
Named Willow, the chip is key to Google’s plans to build a scaled-up quantum computer – a piece of tech that has the potential to solve much more complicated problems than classical computers.
Google claims that Willow was able to complete one particular problem in five minutes, while the same task would have taken today’s supercomputers 10 septillion years — or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 — to finish.
That’s longer than the universe has existed.
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