Google has announced a major breakthrough in its quest to achieve practical quantum computing, after its new processor Willow succeeded in implementing a complex quantum algorithm known as Quantum Echoes at a speed of about 13,000 times faster than traditional supercomputers.

Willow is a significant development after Google's Sycamore chip unveiled in 2019, this time offering real-world benefit in areas such as artificial intelligence, chemical modeling, and advanced materials research, according to the study published in the journal Nature.The processor works with 105 superconducting qubits, each representing a virtual atom capable of storing information in multiple states at the same time.