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Microsoft (MSFT+ 1,24%) Changes what you learned about the creature of matter in primary school with the creation that said it would improve “the path to useful quantum computing”.
As part of what calls “A year that became quantum”, the company presented its first quantum computer chipMajorna 1, built with “topological super-means” or “topoconductors” – “a breakthrough” material that has enabled the company to create a new state of matter called “Topological superproduction.”
Quantum computers typically use quantum bits – or Qubits – which ones are Usually electrons, photons or some other subatomic particle. Related together, Qubits have far greater the power of processing from binary 0 and 1S which are used by classic computers. Unlike classic binary bits, quubits can be 0 and 1 at the same time in the title superposition. The more they are used in Qubitsu, more mistakes are more than the computing.
Microsoft claims that his solution for reducing these errors is lying in topoconductors. Unlike well-known solids, liquids and gases, this new state of matter occurs when electrons pair and zero resistance flows while protected by special mathematical properties that make them extremely stable.
The new state of matterWhich Microsoft has worked on almost two decadesIt allows quantum systems to scale to one million quubits on one, manual chip, adding that it showed the first topological quit in the world and has already set up eight on Major 1. on a million quantes, and the quantum computer could carry out far more severe budgets than traditional computers with greater accuracy.
“(Q) Uantum Computing in this scale could lead to innovation such as self-healing cracks in bridges, sustainable agriculture and safer chemical discovery,” said Chetan Nayak, Corporate Vice President of Quantum Hardware in Microsoft. “What requires billions of dollars today in exhaustive experimental search and wet laboratory experiments, instead, through the calculation in the quantum computer.”
Because these specially protected qubit is less, faster and more reliable than traditional Qubits, Microsoft has said that it can build a working prototype of a quantum computer without error in only years, not decades. The company calls this “prototype error tolerance” or FTP.
“Imagine a chip that can fit on your hand your hand, can solve the problems that even all computers on Earth today could not,” Microsoft CEO of Satya Nadell wrote On X. “This is our focus: when productivity grows, economies grow faster, benefits each sector and every corner of globe.”
Despite the excitement, Microsoft customers will not be able to use Majorna 1 chip through its azure public cloud, CNBC (CMCSA+ 0.48%) reported, as Microsoft continues to research with national laboratories and universities.
Quantum computer stock climbed with the announcement, with D-wave quantum (QBTS+ 9.69%) Shares jump more than 8%, quantum computing (Qubt+ 8.51%) rise 7.8%, and Rigetti computing (Be+ 6.32%) Shares almost 5%.
Earlier this year quantum stock dropped after and nvidia (Nvda-0.20%) Executive Director Jensen Huang and Meta (Target-1.95%) Executive Director Mark Zuckerberg deals with doubts about economical skill.
During the day of the financial analyst chipmaker on the day Consumer electronic show In January, Huang said that the useful quantum computers were probably decades.
“If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, it would probably be on the early side,” Huang said. “If you said 30, it’s probably on the late side. But if you picked 20, I think the whole bunch would believe.”
However, Nvidia announced that it will be the host first Quantum day On its GPU technology conference in March. Nvidia will also transfer the quantum computer “progress shortening the timeline in useful applications,” the company said.
2025-02-19 21:58:00
