Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has invented an entirely new kind of quantum computer.
From my latest Forbes story:
Microsoft’s new quantum chip, Majorana 1, is a quantum processor analogous to transistors in classical computers’ semiconductor chips and offers a path to million-qubit systems in a single relatively small quantum computing fridge.
That would enable the creation of a single quantum computer which would be more powerful than all classical computers on the planet.
It would be incredibly useful for things like designing new battery substrates, inventing new drugs, simulating nuclear fusion reactors, inventing post-quantum cryptography methods, and much more.
Check out my story in Forbes … and also my Techfirst podcast with the head of quantum hardware for Microsoft, Chetan Nyak.