Microsoft's first entry into quantum hardware comes in the form of Majorana 1, a processor with eight of these qubits. ... "Our qubits are voltage-controlled," Nayak told Ars.

There are similarities and differences between what the company is talking about today and IBM's recent update of its roadmap ...

But that's what Microsoft claims is now plausible, within a few years. "Whatever you’re doing in the quantum space needs to have a path to a million qubits," said Chetan Nayak, Microsoft ...

Quantum computing is one of the hottest trends in the market. It's an innovative technology that's starting to gain wider adoption, but we're still a few years away from widesprea ...

In 2018, Microsoft researchers published a paper on Majoranas that was subsequently retracted, and some researchers doubted the elusive Majorana quasiparticles could ever be harnessed into qubits ...

A ‘topoconductor’ is a brand-new type of material that Microsoft created. It helps keep the quantum information safe from ...

Microsoft has declared the end of an era of noisy, error-prone quantum machines as it channels its vast resources towards building a fault-tolerant quantum computer designed to work with ...

By November 2024, the companies had entangled 24 logical qubits and successfully ran a quantum algorithm using 28 logical qubits. As of 2025, Atom Computing’s neutral atom-based system features ...

Microsoft said in the news release: “The Majorana 1 processor offers a clear path to fit a million qubits on a single chip that can fit in the palm of one’s hand,” referring to the threshold ...