Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

“As the Ocelot architecture is advanced to include more physical qubits, and multiple error-corrected logical qubits that can perform logical computations at the logical qubit level, there is an opportunity for us, even if early, to provide access to customers to this early-stage hardware,” Painter said. “We haven’t decided when that date will be, and we will continue to evaluate when that right time might be, but now is too early.”

It will eventually be available on the AWS Braket quantum cloud service, Painter said.

“It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWS’s Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances,” he said.

The first industries to use it will probably be those developing new materials, new chemical processes, or in molecular biology, Painter said.

“AWS is showing compelling results,” says Rob Schoelkopf, chief scientist and co-founder at Quantum Circuits, a quantum computing company that is also working on fault-tolerant qubits. Schoelkopf is known as one of the founders of the superconducting quantum computing field. “I look forward to seeing where it goes.”

The AWS announcement comes just one week after Microsoft revealed its own quantum breakthrough, the Majorana 1 chip, intensifying the race among tech giants to deliver quantum computing at scale.