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Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
- Tom Warren
- June 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Microsoft’s new Majorana 2 quantum chip. | Image: Microsoft
Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip.
Majorana 2 contains qubits, a unit of information in quantum computing much like the binary bits that computers use today, that are 1,000 times more reliable, according to Microsoft. It's a milestone that helps make quantum computing more reliable, thanks to the use of a new material stack and some help from Microsoft Discovery's agen …
Originally published at The Verge