Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, ...

The architecture uses 4-bit activations for inputs to attention and feed-forward network (FFN) layers. It uses sparsification with 8 bits for intermediate states, keeping only the top 55% of the ...

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft need massive amounts of electricity to power their AI data centers. In states like Louisiana and Wisconsin, utilities want to serve them with new natural gas plants.

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible. Microsoft’s new quantum chip is ...

Technology giant Microsoft is buying nearly 400 MW of power from three new utility-scale solar projects in Illinois and Texas. EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) on Feb. 10 said the ...

Microsoft has agreed to pay an energy company to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. And this week, Amazon and Google said they were focusing on a new ...