Breakthrough on building qubits puts the tech giant on track to developing a full-stack quantum computing solution.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it has made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The company’s researchers demonstrated the elusive physics—first theorized in 1937—needed to build topological qubits, the building blocks for developing a scalable quantum computer.
(If you are so inclined or have a keen interest in physics, here’s a post by Chetan Nayak, distinguished professor of quantum at Microsoft, explaining the specifics of the breakthrough.)
I have written about this before in Oversize, but a quick refresher might be helpful. After all, when asked to explain quantum computing in an interview, Bill Gates confessed, …
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