AWSAnnounceIt launched a new quantum computing chip "Ocelot", emphasizing that compared with the current quantum error correction method, it will be able to reduce computing costs by up to 90%.
This chip was developed by the AWS Quantum Computing Center team at the California Institute of Technology. AWS also touted "Ocelot" as a major breakthrough in the process of building a fault-tolerant quantum computer, which will be able to solve major business and scientific problems that cannot be handled by traditional computers today.
In the "Ocelot" architecture, AWS adopts a brand-new design with built-in error correction design from the beginning, and uses cat qubits, named after the famous "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment, to suppress certain forms of errors, thereby reducing the resources required for quantum error correction and achieving the goal of reducing computing costs.
AWS researchers also borrowed process design from the microelectronics industry and successfully integrated cat quantum bit technology and other quantum error correction components into a micro-chip that can be manufactured on a large scale for the first time.
Oskar Painter, Head of Quantum Hardware at AWS, said: "Recent advances in quantum research have made the arrival of practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers no longer a question of 'if' but 'when'. Ocelot is a significant step towards this goal. Future quantum chips designed with the Ocelot architecture will require significantly fewer error-correction resources, reducing their cost to one-fifth that of current approaches. We believe this will accelerate the arrival of practical quantum computers by up to five years."
