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Caltech has joined forces to bring about the first quantum computing chip of Amazon here. One arrow goes by the name of Ocelot. This launches Amazon into the quantum coliseum as recently-born hardware by other companies like Google and Microsoft.
New Possible Uses in Quantum Computing
- Inconceivably faster than normal computers, such phenomena are expected to change industries such as chemistry and health-care.
- Some experts opine that it will still take a decade from now before real life applications are observed.
Features of the Ocellus Computation Chip
- Configuration:
- Two co-centric squares of silicon.
- Qubits:
- Five qubits act as data storage devices.
- Four additional qubits are for stabilizing and correcting errors.
- Error Correction:
- With the help of “cat qubits“, computation errors can be minimized similar to that of the famous thought experiment of Schrödinger’s cat.
- These errors should be due to heat, vibration, and electromagnetic interference.
- Cost Effectiveness:
- Amazon claims that using this architecture is a decrease of 90 percent in costs as regards the most other quantum computing architectures.
This brings Amazon high up into the scales as far as its quantum computing ambitions are concerned, perhaps tilting the odds further in favor of closing the race into the very real-world applications domain of quantum.
