Willow's 99.99% magic states sit a million times short of cracking RSA keys
Cryptopolitan · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:12:42 GMT
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Willow chip achieves 99.99% magic-state fidelity, about a million times short of RSA code-breaking needs
Google's Willow chip reduced magic-state errors by a factor of 40, reaching 99.99% fidelity, but code-breaking would require states approximately one million times cleaner.