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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition, the Majorana 1 is not even a beta product as far as computing goes, maybe not even alpha. It cannot do any useful work until it somehow is extended with many more qubits, known in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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