Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, the world's first quantum processor using topological qubits, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. The breakthrough involves a new material class called topoconductor, enabling practical quantum computing through hardware-protected qubits and digital control systems. DARPA has selected Microsoft to advance to the final phase of their quantum benchmarking program, aiming to build a fault-tolerant prototype in the coming years.
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