> [!meta]- Document Info > **Author**: [[Hartmut Neven]] > **Full Title**: Meet Willow, Our State-of-the-Art Quantum Chip > **Category**: #articles > > **Summary**: Google has introduced Willow, a new quantum chip that significantly reduces errors as more qubits are used. It can perform complex calculations in under five minutes, a task that would take the fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years. Willow represents a major advancement in quantum computing, bringing us closer to practical applications that classical computers cannot achieve. > > **Source**: [Original URL](https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/) ## 📄 Full Document → [[Meet Willow, Our State-of-the-Art Quantum Chip]] ## 🔦 Highlights & Commentary - Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s [fastest supercomputers](https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/) 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a [prediction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabric_of_Reality) first made by David Deutsch. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jerxp22bhqdsmsb29agkqp06))