Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1 chip | The Verge
Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing.
Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937. Microsoft has reached this milestone by creating what it calls the “world’s first topoconductor,” a new type of material that can not only observe but also control Majorana particles to create more reliable qubits.
