GOOGLE says it has developed a quantum computer billions of times faster than any other technology.<\/p>\n
The US giant claims it took 200 seconds to carry out a task that would have taken a supercomputer around 10,000 years.<\/p>\n
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Experts called it a \"phenomenally significant\" breakthrough.<\/p>\n
In conventional computers, a unit of information or bit can have a value of 0 or 1.<\/p>\n
But quantum bits can be both 0 and 1, allowing multiple computations at once.<\/p>\n
University College London expert Dr Ciarn Gilligan-Lee said: It is the first baby step on a long journey where we can fully harness the power of quantum mechanics that will eclipse anything our current laptops or even supercomputers can do.<\/p>\n
\"It is a huge technological and scientific milestone.\"<\/p>\n
Quantum computing promises to revolutionise the way PCs crunch data.<\/p>\n
They could perform important work like designing super-materials, speeding up package deliveries and creating new drugs for deadly diseases at high speed.<\/p>\n
Scientists have spent decades trying to achieve \"quantum supremacy\", a landmark that Google now claims to have conquered.<\/p>\n
The phrase basically means the moment at which aquantum computer is able to do something that a classical computer can't.<\/p>\n
The search giant worked for more than a decade to produce its own quantum computing chip, called Sycamore.<\/p>\n
\"Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds,\" Google researchers saidin a blog post about the work.<\/p>\n
\"From measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output.\"<\/p>\n
Google carried out its research at a lab in Santa Barbara, California.<\/p>\n
The findings were published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n
Dr Luke Fleet, a senior editor at Nature, said quantum machines are still years, if not decades away.<\/p>\n
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He said: This breakthrough result marks the dawn of a new type of computing.it allows you to compute things faster not just a little, but lot faster!<\/p>\n
This is transformative as people will be able to compute things that they previously thought impossible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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