Quantum chips like Willow operate on a much smaller scale. The qubits that make up these high powered chips are roughly the size of an atom, and operate via the rules of quantum mechanics. The chips pack a computing punch at a miniscule level and with potentially better energy efficiency than supercomputers, but they’re also limited in their uses.

Willow performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years -- that’s 10 followed by 25 zeroes.

Google's breakthrough in speed and error correction with its new quantum chip, while not immediately useful for most businesses, accelerates the timeline for quantum-safe security preparation and signals a critical moment for technology leaders to begin strategic planning for the quantum era.

Google says their researchers developed a new chip, "Willow," they say overcomes a main hurdle in quantum computing.

In its own heady blog post, Google debuted Willow, its latest quantum chip. It was flanked by hyped headlines that suggest something akin to the obelisk in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The breakthrough might not be about the power,

Alphabet shares rose a day after Google said it developed a new chip that moves a step forward in the tech industry’s longtime dream of developing commercially relevant quantum computing. The chip, called Willow,

Through a newly unveiled quantum chip called Willow, Google engineers have passed a significant milestone in error handling. Specifically, they've been able to keep a single logical qubit stable enough so errors occur maybe once every hour,