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Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough With Majorana 1

Gestalt IT, Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

We've talked about quantum computing before but Microsoft created a quantum quake in the tech space last week.

They announced a new quantum computer chip that took seventeen years to make. The Majorana-1 uses a brand new Topological Core technology that reduces error rates significantly and could create chips with as much as one million qubits of processing power per unit. Microsoft's researchers reportedly created a new state of matter in the accompanying research paper published to Nature to help them create the method for increasing the power of the chip. This and more on The Rundown.

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