Alphabet stock has rallied since Google revealed a new in-house chip called Willow, designed to power quantum computing. But as even Google’s announcement makes clear, quantum computing is still a long way off from any commercial use.

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Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow.' The company claimed that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 10 25 years on a conventional supercomputer.