Microsoft Made A New State Of Matter?!

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The AI era is now.

The robotics era is next.

The quantum era is the future.

Microsoft has announced the Majorana 1, a quantum computer built on a topological core. It has been a project over 19 years in the making.

The conventional states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. The topoconductor-based core of the Majorana is none of these.

Semiconductors paved the path for modern computing and smartphones. Topoconductors might pave the way for quantum computers.

The Majorana 1 fits into the palm of your hand but it can hold up to a million qubits!

Just to put that into perspective - all the conventional computers in the world COMBINED do not have the eventual processing power of Majorana 1!

This breakthrough required developing an entirely new materials stack made of indium arsenide and aluminum, much of which Microsoft designed and fabricated atom by atom. The goal was to coax new quantum particles called Majoranas into existence and take advantage of their unique properties.

Microsoft made a high-risk choice of pursuing topological qubits years ago and it has finally paid off. The company has already managed to place 8 topological qubits on the chip which can house a total of million qubits.

The huge disadvantage of Microsoft’s bet was that ‘majoranas’ were only a theory. Nobody had seen or created them until now.

With this breakthrough, usable quantum computers might be years away and not decades.

Ironically, to create stable, powerful, and usable quantum computers in the future; we need quantum computers. We will be able to synthesize new materials for future quantum computers only with processing power at the quantum scale; otherwise it would take hundreds or even thousands of years (or even more!) to identify the right combination of atoms.

Quantum computers might be able to solve some of the biggest mysteries of science in the future:

• Why do metals corrode and how can we make them self-healing?

• How do we clean up microplastics?

• How can we get rid of carbon pollution?

• How can we synthesize new enzymes to boost soil fertility and potentially cure global hunger?

Humanity will accelerate at an unimaginable pace.

(Announcement by Microsoft)

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