A newly announced chip from Microsoft could solve unsolvable problems, revolutionize quantum computing, and solve real-world problems that cannot be solved by the combined forces of every computer in the world combined. Those are bold claims, so you may think they're about a concept device or a look-ahead into what could be in a decade. But that's not the case. Microsoft announced a new chip called the Majorana 1 processor.
The processor paves the way to make a quantum computer in the near future, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. "We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years," said Nadella on LinkedIn.
