Following Google and Microsoft (MS), Amazon’s own quantum computing chip has been released. Big Tech’s competition for the preoccupation of the quantum computing market is becoming fierce.
Amazon Web Service (AWS) announced on the twenty seventh (local time), OCELOT, a quantum chip that can promote commercialization of quantum computing technology.
The chip can reduce the associated fee of modifying quantum errors by as much as 90% of the prevailing technology, which might greatly improve the performance of quantum computers.
Unlike conventional digital computers, quantum computers are a technology that may greatly improve the computational speed through the use of quit that may express 0 and 1 at the identical time.
Nonetheless, Cubit is anticipated to take many years to commercialize since it has an issue that is simple to occur even in small changes within the external environment. To resolve this problem, ‘quantum error correction’ technology is required, and the prevailing method has been a serious difficulty in practical use by consuming enormous resources. Usually, about 1 million physical cubits are required to create a useful variety of logical cubits which can be useful in quantum computers.
AWS used a technology called ‘Cat Qubit’ to resolve this problem. This explains that it uses a singular architecture to suppress certain errors and significantly reduce the quantity of resources required to switch quantum errors. The brand new architecture means that you can modify the error with 5 to 10 times less resources than before.
The name Cat is known as after Schrödinger’s cat. Ocelot also means wild cats.
The Ocelot chip, developed on the AWS Quantum Computing Center on the University of California, is designed with two silicone microchips stacked and accommodates quantum circuits using superconducting materials. It consists of 5 data storage cubits and 4 error detection cubits.
“The prevailing method focused on increasing the variety of quantum computers, however the necessary problem is to perform a reliable operation without an error,” said Oscar Painter’s quantum hardware director. Cubit will have the option to create a useful computer. ”
Particularly, he emphasized that “this could be as much as five years ahead of the sensible use of quantum computing.”
The importance of quantum error correction technology is taken into account a key element that determines the opportunity of commercialization of quantum computing beyond easy technical improvements. AWS researchers predicted that if quantum error modifications were made more efficiently through Ocelot, the general hardware cost can be reduced. Painter director emphasized that “quantum chips based on otelot architecture could be produced at one -fifth of the previous method.”
Competition for quantum chip development is anticipated to be more intense in the longer term. Along with major cloud corporations comparable to AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM within the quantum computing market, many startups are competing for technology development.
Usually, quantum computers are operated at extreme temperature and require skilled maintenance and repair, which is predicated on cloud -based. Ocelot’s release is the movement during which AWS is attempting to take the lead in the subsequent cloud market.
By Park Chan, reporter cpark@aitimes.com
