Does Google’s ‘mindboggling’ new chip bring quantum computers any closer?

On Monday Google unveiled its Willow quantum computing chip. The
new chip takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take
10 septillion years for some of the world’s fastest conventional
computers to complete. But despite its impressive power, it’s not
clear the chip has any practical applications. So does it bring
quantum computing any closer? To find out Ian Sample speaks to
Winfried Hensinger, professor of quantum technologies at the
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