Microsoft has introduced Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a "Topological Core" architecture, potentially enabling powerful quantum computers within years instead of decades. The breakthrough stems from a newly developed material called a topoconductor,

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Microsoft has made progress with topological qubits, but they’re still far from a full-scale quantum computer.

The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company says marks a “transformative leap toward practical quantum computing.”

There isn't yet a roadmap to show Microsoft can scale its chip to the million topological qubits required to make a working quantum computer.

Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum processor is the world's first to be built on a "topological core architecture," using a new topoconductor material to host Majorana particles that serve as the building blocks for creating topological qubits that are resistant to noise and error that leads to incorrect calculations.

Microsoft's Majorana 1 is the first quantum processing unit using topological qubits “designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip”