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Microsoft recentlyhighlighted its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer.

For instance, it would be able to hit one million quantum operations per second.

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Researchers developed a new punch in of Majorana-based qubit, which is a fundamental component of quantum supercomputers.

These qubits are more stable and easier to scale up resulting in the need for fewer of them.

We can now create and control Majorana quasiparticles.

Microsoft Majorana 1 chip designed for quantum computing

With this achievement, we’re well on our way to engineering a new hardware-protected qubit.

Moving forward, Microsoft will have to build hardware-protected qubits in a bid to promote efficiency and effectiveness.

From this point, Microsoft should be able to translate this into its supercomputer.

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