Amazon Web Services on Thursday showed a quantum computing chip with new technology that it hopes will shave as much as five years off its effort to build a commercially useful quantum computer.

The Ocelot chip is designed to slash the costs associated with quantum error correction by up to 90% compared to existing methods.

Amazon's new "Ocelot" processor is a first-generation quantum chip developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, California. (AWS Photo)

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

Amazon Web Services has unveiled Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip, which aims to tackle one of the biggest barriers in the field: error correction.

Amazon says its Ocelot chip will cut error correction overhead by 90% and bring practical quantum computing closer to fruition, but some experts are skeptical

Amazon enters the quantum race with Ocelot, aiming to rival Google and Microsoft. The prototype chip could advance error correction and bring practical quantum computing closer.

Following quantum chip breakthroughs by Microsoft and Google, AWS scientists explain the role transistors play in this first-generation cat qubit architecture.

Amazon unveiled its first quantum computing chip, Ocelot, marking a step toward scalable quantum systems. The announcement follows Microsoft's quantum chip reveal last week. Amazon claims Ocelot could require just one-tenth the resources of conventional approaches to achieve practical quantum computing.

Amazon has unveiled its first quantum computing chip that uses scalable architecture and reduces error correction cost by up to 90%. Called ‘Ocelot’, the chip is developed by a team of the AWS Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology.