Willow. Majorana. Ocelot. Quantum's Interesting Now? You Bet.
A developing story.
Never a dull day in the world of computing. Every segment of the computing industry, be it hardware, software, services, tech products, gadgets.. has some thing to release, showcase, demo, present. Guess, everyone’s getting an “AI” upgrade.
And Quantum, ain’t want to be quiet or left ignored. Though a powerful technology, frankly the world still need to see a practical uses (other than movie scripts)!
Some movies have been using this tech to let characters in the movies be in 3D worlds, alternative realities and time travel :-)
The race for Quantum superiority started few years back with IBM, Google started investing heavily on the technology. Recently the new trend started with Google’s Willow quantum chip announced in 9th Dec 2009
The latest development being..
Amazon’s Ocelot
The release of Amazon’s Ocelot (may be named to serve as a way to link the physical animal with the underlying quantum principles of the chip)
last week followed by..
Microsoft’s Majorana 1
on 19th Feb, 2025 by Microsoft’s Majorana 1 (named after Ettore Majorana, an Italian theoretical physicist who, in 1937, theorized the existence of a type of particle known as a Majorana fermion)
and the in Dec 2009
Google’s Willow
release of Willow in 9th Dec 2009
and the race goes on!!!
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Technology is great, fall in love with it not the hype!