27/02/2025
New Era of Quantum computing - Ocelot, Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s new quantum chip.
Quantum computing promises to solve problems that today's most poweOcelot, Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s new quantum chiprful computers can't touch. But there's been one huge obstacle: quantum systems are incredibly fragile and prone to errors. Today marks a breakthrough. We just unveiled Ocelot, Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s new quantum chip that takes a completely different approach to this challenge. Our team used a novel design for Ocelot's architecture, building error correction in from the ground up, leveraging special quantum bits (called 'cat qubits'). They naturally resist errors, much like building immunity into the system itself rather than trying to fix errors after they happen. We're the first to successfully put this technology into an integrated microchip that can be manufactured using fabrication processes adopted from the microelectronics industry. That means we’ve reduced the resources needed for error correction by as much as 90%, accelerating our path to practical quantum computing by an estimated 5 years. Think of this like going from unreliable vacuum tubes to dependable transistors in early computing—a fundamental shift that turned possibilities into reality. From discovering new medicines faster, to developing better clean energy solutions, we're accelerating the path to real-world quantum computing. While there's still a lot more work ahead here, I'm super proud of the team's achievement. Check out this peek into our quantum lab where they've been working on Ocelot, and stay tuned for more!
