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 IBM, Alphabet’s Google is chasing quantum computing because it promises computing speeds far faster than today’s fastest systems. As more qubits are packed onto a chip, those errors can add up to make the chip no better than a conventional computer chip. “We are past the break even point,” Hartmut Neven, who leads the Google Quantum AI unit, said in an interview. Some of Google’s rivals are producing chips with a larger number of qubits than Google, but Google is focused on making the most reliable qubits it can, Anthony Megrant, chief architect for Google Quantum AI, said in an interview.

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Persons: ” Hartmut Neven, Anthony Megrant, Megrant, ” Megrant Organizations: Google, Microsoft, IBM, University of California Locations: Santa Barbara , California, Santa Barbara