Microsoft's recent announcement of the Majorana 1 quantum processor, a topological qubit-wielding breakthrough so bold it's designed on physics that aren't fully established yet, has come under ...

Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum processor is the world's first to be built on a "topological core architecture," using a new topoconductor material to host Majorana particles that serve as the ...

Majorana 1 packs eight quantum bits into a body that's slightly larger than a desktop PC CPU, and according to Microsoft, it can eventually be expanded to one million quantum bits.

Now, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is following Google’s lead. On Feb. 19, the tech giant revealed its latest quantum chip, Majorana 1. Some are dubbing this new chip a breakthrough in quantum ...

At the heart of Majorana 1 is what Microsoft calls the Topological Core, built from a hybrid material of indium arsenide and aluminum, forming a superconducting structure known as a topoconductor.

The design of the Majorana 1 processor is supposed to fit up to a million qubits, which may be enough to realize many significant goals of quantum computing —such as cracking cryptographic codes ...

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 has been in the works for nearly two decades and relies on a subatomic particle called the Majorana fermion whose existence was first theorized in the 1930s. That particle ...

Microsoft won’t be allowing clients to use its Majorana 1 chip through the company’s Azure public cloud, as it plans to do with its custom artificial intelligence chip, Maia 100.

Microsoft shocked the tech world by announcing its Majorana 1 quantum chip on Feb. 19, marking a transformative leap of innovation in the rapidly evolving field. Quantum computers are intended to ...