At the heart of Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough lies a strange and elusive phenomenon: Majorana particles. First theorized in 1937 by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, these particles behave ...

Tech companies in the United States are racing to scale quantum computer systems from lab prototypes to industrial machines.

Microsoft has launched Majorana 1, an eight-qubit chip powered by Majorana zero modes, marking a potential “breakthrough” in quantum computing. The chip's architecture, based on these ...

A logo of Microsoft is displayed. (Dita Alangkara/AP) Microsoft has debuted an experimental new computer chip which it claims utilizes a new state of matter for quantum computing.

What Microsoft has successfully done is demonstrate that quantum information can be encoded using Majorana particles. The next step is to start working toward a quantum chip that's useful.

Microsoft Azure recently announced that its quantum computing research teams had invented “a new kind of qubit” based on elusive, never-before-demonstrated properties of physics. According to ...

Microsoft experts will provide engineers at IIT Roorkee a unique approach to learn quantum computing with real-world experiments and access to tools. Commenting on the partnership, Reena Dayal, ...

Microsoft is focusing on the development of quantum computers that take advantage of cryogenically cooled nanowires. (Microsoft Photo) REDMOND, Wash. — Quantum computing may still be in its ...

Microsoft is finally making the version of Bing Chat we heard about in February a reality. The latest version of Microsoft Edge (111.0.1661.41) includes the Bing Copoilot sidebar, which allows you ...

Microsoft has crazy quantum computing plans: first, it built hardware based on a particle that hasn’t even been discovered. Now, it’s hoping to co-design super-cool memory for quantum computers.