• SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Not sure what to make of this, they’ve got the potential to put a million qubits on a chip, but there’s only 8…

    And others have had quantum computers for a while now… so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.

    Ok now i’m gonna need an explain-like-i’m-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a ‘topological transistor’ is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)