The Majorana 1 chip itself, designed to accommodate a million qubits and about the size of your palm, signals that quantum’s “million-qubit” era may be closer than we think.

The Microsoft Majorana 1 chip currently has 8 qubits. These are topological qubits, which are designed to be more stable and less prone to errors compared to traditional qubits, thanks to their unique ...

Majorana 1 is the first quantum processor with a topological core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. Microsoft announced a breakthrough in quantum computing today, unveiling ...

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

Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, ...

Microsoft says the new chip, the Microsoft Majorana 1, is "the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture" that it expects will "realize quantum computers capable ...

After many years of work, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum hardware, the Majorana 1 processor. Let’s grok its topoconductor and tetron-based qubits. There’s a race going on. Not the ...

This solves the noise problem that creates errors in qubits.” Currently, Majorana 1 holds only eight of these qubits, which isn’t nearly enough to perform world-changing calculations.

Majorana 1 has too few qubits for the sorts of experiments that the Azure team has been doing, so we're likely to have to wait for its next-generation hardware to see how the performance of these ...

Qubits made from such quasiparticles are less susceptible to errors than other quantum circuits. As a result, Microsoft believes Majorana 1’s architecture could hold the key to building large ...

Microsoft has instead put its time and resources into developing Majorana-based qubits. While the company is late to the quantum party, it hopes to catch up quickly. There’s Always a Catch.