Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing

Microsoft’s caller Majorana 2 quantum chip. | Image: Microsoft

Microsoft claimed past twelvemonth that it had made a key breakthrough successful quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's archetypal quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the bundle elephantine is announcing Majorana 2 today, the adjacent procreation of its topological quantum chip.

Majorana 2 contains qubits, a portion of accusation successful quantum computing overmuch similar the binary bits that computers usage today, that are 1,000 times much reliable, according to Microsoft. It's a milestone that helps marque quantum computing much reliable, acknowledgment to the usage of a caller worldly stack and immoderate assistance from Microsoft Discovery's agen …

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