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Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

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Microsoft has spent 17 years working on a research project to create a new material and architecture for quantum computing.

The software giant has unveiled the Majorana 1 processor, Microsoft ’s first quantum processor based on this new architecture.

Microsoft has placed eight topological qubits on a chip that it hopes can eventually scale to 1 million .

A chip with a million qubits could help improve the understanding of the natural world and unlock breakthroughs in medicine and material science.

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