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Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing

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Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an exotic state of matter.

The design of the Majorana 1 processor is supposed to fit up to a million qubits, which may be enough to realize many goals of quantum computing.

Microsoft plans to scale up more and more qubits by grouping up qubits together.

IBM and Google are leading the race to build a quantum computer.

Microsoft will try to move ahead with its road map, steadily building larger and larger collections of qubits. The scientific community will closely watch how Microsoft ’s quantum computing processors operate, and how they perform in comparison to the other already established quantum computing processors. At the same time, research into the exotic and obscure behavior of Majorana particles will continue at universities around the globe..