Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1 Quantum Chip, Signaling Computing Breakthrough

Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip, which could accelerate the development of a high-performance quantum computer within a few years, rather than decades. This chip creates a novel state of matter essential for manipulating a theoretical particle and accommodates eight qubits. Preliminary tests demonstrated a 1% error rate, suggesting significant progress in utilizing this new state of matter for quantum computation, as stated by Microsoft. Microsoft's goal is to build a quantum computer with a million qubits for real-world applications.