After many years of work, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum hardware, the Majorana 1 processor. Let’s grok its ...

The chip's architecture, based on quasiparticles, is touted by Microsoft as a key to building large-scale quantum computers.

Majorana 1 relies on ‘topological superconductivity,’ a never-before-seen theoretical form of matter.

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Majorana 1 chip harnesses 8 qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing, on a sticky-note-sized piece of hardware it ...

Quasiparticles are collections of particles (and, in some cases, field lines) that can be described mathematically as if they ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...

Microsoft has developed the world’s first quantum computing chip called Majorana 1. The company says quantum computers are ...

Microsoft says it's made a major breakthrough in quantum computing capabilities with the Majorana 1, its first quantum chip, ...

Microsoft's Majorana 1 represents a paradigm shift in quantum computing. This innovation could solve biggest challenges at a ...