Microsoft has launched Azure Quantum, a cloud-based platform for researchers to learn quantum programming and experiment with current early versions of future hardware. Microsoft has demonstrated the ...

Microsoft Corp. today debuted the Majorana 1, an eight-qubit chip that it touts as a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The processor is powered by quasiparticles called Majorana zero modes.

Only a little more than a month after Google announced its Willow quantum computing chip, Microsoft is revealing its own. The Majorana 1, Microsoft says, makes use of a topoconductor, which is ...

Microsoft says it's made a major breakthrough in quantum computing capabilities with the Majorana 1, its first quantum chip, and the first of its kind to be powered by what are called topological ...