Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot, that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches.
“We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years,” says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today.
Ocelot uses so-called cat qubits that are inherently resistant to bit-flip errors and, in theory, are more fault-tolerant than some other approaches.
