Powerful quantum computers in years not decades, says Microsoft

Microsoft unveiled a new slice called Majurana 1, which says it will enable the creation of quantum computers capable of solving “industrial significance problems in the years, not contracts.”

It is the latest development in quantum computing – technology that uses the principles of particle physics to create a new type of computer capable of solving problems that cannot be made for regular computers.

Creating quantum computers is strong enough to solve the real world’s important problems is very difficult – and some experts believe they are decades away.

Microsoft says this schedule can now be accelerated due to the “transformational” progress it has made in developing the new chip that involves a “Tobology”, based on a new material it produced.

The company believes that semiconductors have the ability to be revolutionary like semiconductors in the history of computing.

But experts have told the BBC more data required before the importance of the new research – its effect on quantum computing – in full.

Jensen Huang – the head of the leading chips company, NVIDIA – said in January he believed the quantum computing “very useful” will come in 20 years.

Cheetan Nayak, a technical classmate for quantum devices at Microsoft, said he believed the developments will shake traditional thinking about the future of quantum computers.

“Many people said quantum computing, that is, useful quantum computers are decades away,” he said. “I think this leads us to years instead of contracts.”

Travis Humble, director of the quantum science center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, said he agreed that Microsoft would now be able to present preliminary models – but he warned of having work to do.

“The long -term goals for solving industrial applications on quantum computers will require the expansion of the scope of these initial models more,” he said.

Quantitative computing carries a promise to implement accounts that will take today millions of years and can open discoveries in medicine, chemistry and many other areas.

There are many important problems that cannot be solved “classic” computers, of the type we use every day in our phones, laptops and the most modern applications.

But these are the problems that quantum machines may be able to rift quickly, or new discoveries by creating new drugs or better batteries design.

A group of technology companies, including the Silicon Valley giants, are currently participating in a bill of dollars in a powerful quantum computer to solve these problems.

Microsoft is close to the problem differently for most of its competitors.

A way to build a quantum computer depends on the ability to do so CReaet “Topoconductor” or Tobological Mosul.

The newly developed materials are used to create a new state of the material- the so-called “Tobology”, which is not gas, liquid, or solid, and until recently, it only existed.

Specifically, it depends on the so -called majerana molecules, which were considered by the theory – a work claiming to have been discovered in 2018 to retreat.

While the competitors produced a fixed flow of ads – especially “Willow” from Google at the end of 2024 It seems that Microsoft takes longer.

The follow -up of this approach, in the words of the company, was a “high -level, high -level” strategy, but one believes it will take its fruits.

Microsoft said: “In the same way that he made the invention of semiconductor smartphones today, computers, possible electronics, semi -conductors, and the new type of chips provided by providing a way to develop the quantum system,” said Microsoft.

The biggest challenge on quantum computers is related to the basic building block, which is called Qube, which is incredibly fast but very difficult to control and expose errors.

The more Qubits, the more capable of it.

Microsoft says it has placed eight of the new Tobits on its new digital – much less than the chips that some of its competitors have created.

However, he claims to have a way to expand up to a million quarter – which will create an enormous computing power.

Professor Paul Stevenson of Sari University said the research published by Microsoft was a “important step”, but he felt that he had faced difficult challenges in the future.

“Until the following steps are achieved, it is too early to be more than just optimistic with caution,” he said.

Chris Hionon, a quantum programming professor at Edinburgh University, told the BBC that Microsoft’s plans are “credible”.

“This is a promising progress after more than a decade of challenges, and you will see the next few years whether this exciting road map explodes,” he said.