Dubbed Ocelot, it’s designed to correct errors with less hardware overhead.

Amazon is making its foray into quantum computing with the launch of a new chip designed to make quantum error correction more efficient. In an announcement on Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the chip, called Ocelot, can “reduce the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90%, compared to current approaches.”

AWS has launchd Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip, bringing it into line with its big cloud rivals Microsoft and Google.

KEY TAKEAWAYS Amazon on Thursday unveiled its first quantum computing chip, about a week after rival Microsoft announced its first chip devoted to the nascent technology.The new chip, called Ocelot, can cut the “costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90%,

Amazon has announced the prototype of its first-generation quantum chip, Ocelot. In a blog post detailing the chip, Amazon said Ocelot represents the company’s first chip with cat qubit architecture, with future versions being developed to exponentially drive down logical error rates.

American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum announced yesterday that it has cracked a significant puzzle on the road to making the technology useful: manufacturing quantum chips in useful quantities.