THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that ...

Last month, Microsoft announced an advance that could be an important step forward in the long road to building a quantum computer—if true. That progress has followed the projection of ...

Microsoft's recently announced Majorana 1 quantum chip, which it claims uses a Topological Core architecture capable of packing a million qubits into a single quantum processor. However ...

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 ...

A physicist has cast doubt on a test that underlies a high-profile claim by Microsoft to have created the first ‘topological qubits’, a long-sought goal of the company’s quantum-computing ...

Microsoft released a new quantum computing chip with stable properties. The technology has promise but is still many years away from commercialization. Microsoft stock looks like a buy if you are ...

Quantum researchers are in a race for qubits, and Microsoft is in the thick of the competition. “If anybody believes this means that Microsoft is close to a commercial quantum computer ...

Microsoft’s Majorana chips mark a groundbreaking quantum computing breakthrough, potentially bringing practical quantum computers closer to reality. The market has largely ignored the news ...

Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, designed to accelerate quantum computing development and deployment in datacenters. This release is big step on Redmond's path ...

Microsoft unveils a quantum chip with a Topological Core for stable and scalable qubits Majorana 1 features eight topological qubits, aiming for a million-qubit scale Breakthrough is comparable to ...

After Google’s Willow comes Microsoft’s Majorana 1, promising more fantastical quantum computing ahead. But does the reality live up to the hype? Satyen K. Bordoloi investigates. So far ...