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Google have revealed their new 'Willow' Quantum chip that could revolutionise computing. Quantum computers rely on qubits, fragile computational units that often lose information rapidly by interacting with their environment. The chip is a step forward as historically, the more qubits added, the more errors occurred, causing systems to revert to classical computing behaviour. However, in a study published in the journal Nature, researchers have demonstrated a breakthrough with their latest quantum chip, Willow. By scaling up the number of qubits while simultaneously reducing error rates, the team achieved an exponential improvement in performance—a milestone known as being “below threshold”. This advancement is considered a critical step towards building practical and scalable quantum computers. Quantum computers are the next step forward in technology as if proven as a technology they can solve the calculations an ordinary computer can at a rate that could in the future come close to being almost exponentially faster, as they are not bound by binaries.