February 27, 2025 4:37 PM

Amazon unveils quantum chip, aiming to shave years off development time

Amazon Web Services on Thursday showed a quantum computing chip with new technology that it hopes will shave as much as five years off its effort to build a commercially useful quantum computer. The chip, named Ocelot, is a prototype that has only a tiny fraction of the computing power needed to create a useful machine. But like its tech rivals, AWS, which is Amazon.com's cloud computing unit, believes it has finally hit on a technology that can be scaled up into a working machine, though it ha...