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Google announces its Willow quantum computer chip.

Quantum computing isn’t new, but it’s still one of the most challenging technologies to comprehend. Yet, researchers from large corporates, governments, and universities have been researching the technology for a long time. Popular speaking, Quantum computing is changing computing as we know it - or that’s the case for specific types of computing. So, we are not talking about technology that, for now, replaces the computers and chips we know. Where ordinary computers use bits that can have a value of 1 or 0 - Quantum computers can be both at the same time, making the computer perfect for identifying patterns and sequences - and therefore (among other things) easily can be used to break encryptions or used for very demanding speed and data to be handled fast, I.e., weather forecast, etc. The new Google Willow is the first commercially available Quantum chip - and also interesting as it offers 105 Qubits - a significant increase shows the development is going fast.

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