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

A logo of Microsoft is displayed. (Dita Alangkara/AP) On Wednesday Microsoft announced a breakthrough, calling it a major step forward in the pursuit of an effective quantum computer.

Microsoft says it has developed a breakthrough quantum processor based on a new state of matter, giving it a clear path to achieve quantum computing’s long-term promise of solving some of the ...

Microsoft's Quantum Computing Chip Could Be a Game Changer February 20, 2025 — 07:35 am EST. Written by Timothy Green for The Motley Fool-> There's a type of particle called a Majorana fermion ...

In 2018, in Barron's magazine, Microsoft's quantum team told the paper that the company would have a topological qubit ready by the end of that year. In a sense, the Majorana 1 is seven years late.

If Microsoft’s claims pan out, the company may have leapfrogged competitors such as IBM and Google, who currently appear to be leading the race to build a quantum computer.. However, the peer ...

Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip includes eight topological quantum bits. Microsoft claims that building its first quantum-computing chip required that it create a new state of matter, which it is ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new chip that it said showed quantum computing is "years, not decades" away, joining Google and IBM in predicting that a fundamental change in computing ...

Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor (pronounced my-or-ana) is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials.(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) ...

The company also needs its approach to prove superior to all others. As Microsoft pushes toward useful quantum computing, Alphabet, IBM, and a host of other companies are doing the same.