Since Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing news, some members of the scientific community have raised questions about the validity of the tech giant’s claims. Here’s why.

After weeks of criticism, Microsoft promised to show new data about its Majorana 1 quantum computer at the biggest meeting of ...

Microsoft has been at the forefront of computing technology since its founding in 1975. Back then, even its visionary founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, could not have conceived that 50 years ...

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Global Physics Summit, scientists aren’t convinced Microsoft has them.

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Ted Cruz presented Microsoft’s new computer chip at a congressional hearing, saying, “Technologies like this new chip I hold in the palm of my hand, the Majorana 1 quantum chip, are unlocking ...

As a result, on 4 April 1975, Microsoft was born. Soon after, the company secured a deal to provide the operating system for ...

On a crisp afternoon in late March at his home in Bellevue – a lakeside suburb in Seattle with views of the mountains that ...

Microsoft has unveiled the Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a groundbreaking Topological Core architecture. This development marks a seismic shift in computing, promising ...

There has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon.

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On Feb. 19, 2025, Microsoft announced that it had created its first quantum computing chip, dubbed the Majorana 1. The company said that the chip was the culmination of 20 years of research and ...