Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing.

Microsoft introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.

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.

In the same way that the invention of semiconductors made today’s smartphones, computers and electronics possible, topoconductors and the new type of chip they enable offer a path to developing quantum systems that can scale to a million qubits and are capable of tackling the most complex industrial and societal problems, Microsoft said.

微軟的 Majorana 1 晶片為量子運算開闢了新道路。微軟推出了 Majorana 1，這是世界上第一款採用新拓樸核心架構的量子晶片，它有望在數年內（而不是幾十年）實現能夠解決有意義的工業規模問題的量子電腦。

它利用世界上第一個拓撲導體，這是一種突破性的材料，可以觀察和控制馬約拉納粒子來產生更可靠、更可擴展的量子比特，而量子位元是量子電腦的基石。

微軟表示，就像半導體的發明使得當今的智慧型手機、電腦和電子產品成為可能一樣，拓樸導體及其新型晶片為開發可擴展到百萬量子位元的量子系統提供了一條途徑，能夠解決最複雜的工業和社會問題。

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