Hear from the Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, engineered from an entirely new material that has the potential to scale to millions of qubits on a single chip. Find out what is possible…
Chapters:
0:00 – Introducing Majorana 1
1:26 – Why does quantum computing matter?
2:47 – Qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing
5:05 – Understanding the topological state
7:00 – How the Majorana 1 chip works
9:10 – How quantum and classical computing work together
10:13 – The Quantum Age
What took a space larger than an 18-wheel truck a few years ago to play with even a thousand cubits, Microsoft discovered a way to fit 1,000,000 or more cubits on a palm-sized chip. This breakthrough came thanks to the discovery of an “entirely new state of matter.” By comparison, the largest traditional supercomputer in the world that performs 1,742 petaFLOPS is easily outpaced by a 50-qubit quantum computer, but each qubit added exponentially increases performance; thus, a palm-sized chip could outrun 20,000 supercomputers.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/
https://www.darpa.mil/news/2023/utility-quantum-prototype
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-quantum-advancement-crystal-gaps-terabyte.html