A new paper argues Microsoft exaggerated its quantum claims a year ago
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 processor. | Image: Microsoft A critique published in Nature Wednesday calls the basic technology behind Microsoft's "breakthrough" quantum computing chip the Majorana
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 processor. | Image: Microsoft A critique published in Nature Wednesday calls the basic technology behind Microsoft's "breakthrough" quantum computing chip the Majorana 1 into question.
Microsoft unveiled the chip in February 2025 and said it featured a brand-new technology known as a topological qubit. Topological qubits, they said, would be the "building blocks" for their future quantum computer.
Microsoft announced the next generation chip Majorana 2 at Build earlier this month. But in a peer-reviewed article, Henry Legg, a physicist at the University
of St. Andrews, re-analyzed Microsoft's data on their device and argued that the company's researchers did not conclu … Read the full story at The Verge.
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