Microsoft unveils million-qubit quantum chip with matter never seen before

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor built using topological core architecture, an innovative and completely new type of material for quantum processors. The company plans to develop a fault-tolerant prototype (FTP) of a scalable quantum computer over the next few years, a press release shared with Interesting Engineering said. Quantum computing is touted to revolutionize our computational capabilities and help us solve problems that the world faces today. Using quantum properties, the information storage units or qubits used in these computers can compute at scales unimaginable for even the fastest supercomputers available today. To solve complex problems, quantum computers must have many qubits processing information simultaneously and systems that can correct their errors for reliable results. To achieve this, Microsoft set a path to designing qubits using a new material, the topoconductors.