The company's first quantum chip!
Microsoft announces "Majorana 1"
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Microsoft announced the launch of Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processing chip, on Wednesday (Feb. 19), which is the result of nearly 20 years of research in this field.
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Microsoft's quantum chip uses eight topological qubits. The main materials are indium arsenide, a semiconductor, and aluminum, a superconductor.
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Microsoft said that "the difficulty of developing suitable materials to create particles with exotic properties and topological states of matter is the reason why Why are most efforts in quantum computing focused on other forms of qubits?
CNBC reported that understanding topological matter and using it to build quantum chips requires a process of spraying atoms one by one to get the materials perfectly aligned.
“Understanding these materials is very difficult. With a tunable quantum computer, we will be able to predict materials with even better properties to build the next generation of even more advanced quantum computers,” said Christa Svohr, a Microsoft technician.
Technologists believe that in the future, quantum computers will be able to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for conventional computers to solve effectively.
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