Combined with other chip advancements—like the DNA chips we've heard about recently—these AI-created computer chips could be the start of a very bright future for computers.

Google has unveiled its new chip, Willow, which outperforms current computer benchmarks. Google says the chip solves a 30-year hurdle and advances quantum computing for commercial uses.

Whether we consider this a single chip or a compact package of different chips is to large degree a matter of semantics, but Apple refers to singular chips – as in the A18 Pro chip, and the M4 chip.

The results released Monday came from a new chip called Willow that has 105 "qubits," which are the building blocks of quantum computers. Qubits are fast but error-prone, because they can be ...