Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip: breaking of the so-called Quantum Error Correction Threshold and posting a new benchmark for quantum performance against classical computing; Willow ran a benchmark task in five minutes that Google said would take ten septillion years (1024) on Frontier, which until a few weeks ago was the fastest supercomputer in the world. It’s rare to catch Google in a talkative m...