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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, ...

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

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company has ...

With the development, Microsoft is raising the stakes in what is set to be the next big technological contest.

Microsoft sees a path to million qubit quantum computers within years via an entirely new kind of quantum computer using a ...

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

After many years of work, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum hardware, the Majorana 1 processor. Let’s grok its ...