After 17 years of research, Microsoft has finally developed the Majorana 1 chip, its first quantum computing processor based ...

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The tech giant joins Google and IBM in predicting that a fundamental change in computing technology is much closer than ...

Its Majorana 1 chip, made of a new material, can perform high-level computing tasks with greater speed and accuracy, ...

Microsoft started going down this road nearly 20 years ago, and that research has now yielded what looks like a significant ...

Quantum computing stocks advanced on Thursday after Microsoft launched a new chip that indicated the technology is not ...

Microsoft Corp. announced its first quantum computing chip, a major step in the company’s effort to produce devices that ...

Microsoft claims that building its first quantum-computing chip required that it create a new state of matter, which it is ...

Majorana 1 relies on ‘topological superconductivity,’ a never-before-seen theoretical form of matter.

The breakthrough with Majorana 1 comes after a nearly 20-year quest to harness a new state of matter, which Microsoft says it ...

Microsoft has outlined its research in a peer-reviewed paper published today in Nature, explaining how its researchers were ...