Ocelot Chip
03.03.2025
Ocelot Chip
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For Prelims: About Ocelot Chip, Components of Chip |
Why in the news?
Recently, Amazon unveiled a prototype of its first-ever in-house quantum computing chip called Ocelot.
About Ocelot Chip:
- It is a new quantum computing chipwith a nine-qubit chip that has been internally fabricated by Amazon.
- It has been developed by the team at the Amazon Web Services (AWS)Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology.
- AWS used a novel design for Ocelot’s architecture, building error correction from the ground up and using the ‘cat qubit’. Cat qubit is named after the famous Schrödinger's cat.
- It intrinsically suppresses certain forms of errors, reducing the resources required for quantum error correction.
- It has been designed to help Amazon build highly efficient hardware systems.
Components of Chip:
- The Ocelot chip consists of two integrated silicon microchips with an area of roughly one square centimeter each, bonded one on top of one another in an electrically-connected chip stack.
- It has 14 core components: five data qubits (the cat qubits), five ‘buffer circuits’ for stabilizing the data qubits, and four additional qubits for detecting errors on the data qubits.
- The cat qubits store the quantum states used for computation, for which it relies on components called oscillators, which generate a repetitive electrical signal along with steady timing.
Source: Indian Express
Consider the following statements regarding Ocelot Chip:
1. It is a new quantum computing chip fabricated by Microsoft.
2. It intrinsically suppresses certain forms of errors and reduces the resources required for quantum error correction.
3.It has been designed to help Amazon build highly efficient software systems.
How many of the above statements are correct?
A.Only one
B.Only two
C.All three
D.None
Answer A