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Microsoft's quantum chip is powered by topoconductors


And not a single one of my parallel selves understands a lick of it.

"It leverages the world’s first topoconductor, a breakthrough type of material which can observe and control Majorana particles to produce more reliable and scalable qubits, which are the building blocks for quantum computers." (Image credit: Microsoft, John Brecher)Some kinds of calculations can benefit from this probabilistic madness to the extent that Google claimed its recent Willow quantum chip could perform "a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years—a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe." But perhaps Huang hadn't predicted this new "topoconductor" breakthrough from Microsoft that allows for "more reliable and stable qubits" that can create quantum computers "capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems".

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