Following the release of Microsoft's latest quantum computing chip last week, Amazon has unveiled its first one today, after four years in the making.

Amazon AWS announces and showcases Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip touting a cheaper solution to qubit-accelerated error correction.

While there have been more effective demonstrations of error correction in the past, a number of companies are betting that Amazon's general approach is the best route to getting logical qubits that are capable of complex algorithms. So, in that sense, it's an important proof of principle.

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Amazon has become the third tech giant in as many months to announce a breakthrough in quantum computing - a technology that promises vast processing power but is beset by technical difficulties.

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

Amazon debuted its new "Ocelot" chip, joining other tech giants like Google and Microsoft in the race to develop full-fledged quantum computers.

AWS's first-ever quantum chip uses "cat qubits" to reduce errors exponentially as more qubits are added to a system. Scientists say it will lead to scalable and efficient quantum computers.

The Ocelot chip comes with built-in error correction. 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,

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years,” says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. Ocelot uses so-called cat qubits that are inherently resistant to bit-flip errors and,