Get the latest tech news
Amazon joins quantum race with 'cat qubit' powered chip
The prototype chip it dubs Ocelot follows similar announcements by Microsoft and Google
Oskar Painter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology, where the work was carried out, told the BBC that recent progress meant an "aggressive date" was now "looking more and more realistic". Quantum computers are extremely sensitive to noise in their environment - vibrations, heat, electromagnetic interference from mobile phones and WIFI networks, or even cosmic rays and radiation from outer space can all cause them to make errors, which then need to be corrected. "Part of the challenge is how to scale the revolutionary technology efficiently – mechanisms that enable error correction without huge overheads in chip size, energy consumption and systems complexity are really welcome."
Or read this on BBC News
