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

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

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.

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

Microsoft said its new quantum chip leverages the world’s first topoconductor — a completely new class of materials.

Microsoft Corp. today debuted the Majorana 1, an eight-qubit chip that it touts as a major breakthrough in quantum computing.

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

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