{"id":168699,"date":"2025-06-08T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168699\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:30:24","slug":"amazon-debuts-chip-it-aims-to-scale-into-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168699\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Debuts Chip It Aims to Scale Into Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon<\/a> introduced its first quantum computing chip, following similar releases from Microsoft<\/a> and Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed \u201cOcelot,\u201d this quantum chip \u201crepresents an important step in developing efficient means to scaling up to practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers,\u201d Amazon wrote in a company blog post<\/a> Thursday (Feb. 27).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the future, quantum chips built according to the Ocelot architecture could cost as little as one-fifth of current approaches, due to the drastically reduced number of resources required for error correction,\u201d Oskar Painter<\/a>, director of quantum hardware for Amazon Web Services<\/a> (AWS), said in the post. \u201cConcretely, we believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the biggest challenges presented by quantum computers<\/a> is their high sensitivity to \u201cnoise\u201d in their environment, from vibrations to electromagnetic interference from cell phones to cosmic rays, according to the post.<\/p>\n

All of these things can knock qubits \u2014 the quantum bits used to process information in quantum computers \u2014 out of their quantum state, leading to errors and making it difficult to develop a quantum computer that can carry out reliable, \u201cerror-free calculations of any significant complexity,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge isn\u2019t just building more qubits,\u201d Painter said in the post. \u201cIt\u2019s making them work reliably.\u201d<\/p>\n

While quantum computers rely on error correction to solve this problem, \u201cthe sheer number of qubits required to get accurate results,\u201d means that current approaches to quantum error correction carry a prohibitive cost, per the post. However, Ocelot was designed with \u201cbuilt-in\u201d error correction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t take an existing architecture and then try to incorporate error correction afterward,\u201d Painter said in the post. \u201cWe selected our qubit and architecture with quantum error correction as the top requirement. We believe that if we\u2019re going to make practical quantum computers, quantum error correction needs to come first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Microsoft announced Feb. 19 that it created the world\u2019s first \u201ctopoconductor<\/a>,\u201d which is a new type of matter \u2014 not solid, liquid or gas \u2014 that had until then existed only in theory. The topoconductor makes up the core of Majorana 1, the company\u2019s new quantum chip.<\/p>\n

Google said Feb. 5 that it is confident it would unveil commercial quantum computing<\/a> applications in the next five years. The company, which has been working on quantum computing since 2012, has said the technology could be used in building superior batteries, creating new drugs and developing new energy sources.<\/p>\n

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