The Majorana fermion, a sub-atomic particle, has properties that reduce vulnerability to errors that plague quantum computers. The firm’s 8 topological qubits built into the Majorana 1 chip are reliable in design with hardware-based error resistance built-in and are controlled digitally.
On Wednesday (Feb 19), Microsoft announced its new creation, the Majorana 1 quantum computing chip. The chip is powered by a topological superconductor (topoconductor), a special category of material Microsoft created that can achieve a new state of matter – not a solid, liquid, or gas, but a topological state.
The creation comes in light of Microsoft's push to create quantum systems that rely on qubits to run and solve multidimensional quantum algorithms. The company aims to build such systems that can scale 1 million qubits on single chips that can fit in the palm of your hand.
