{"id":907840,"date":"2025-02-21T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907840"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:41:45","slug":"microsoft-unveils-its-first-quantum-chip-the-science-behind-majorana-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/21\/microsoft-unveils-its-first-quantum-chip-the-science-behind-majorana-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft unveils its first quantum chip: The science behind Majorana 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft introduced its first quantum computing chip on Wednesday, suggesting that quantum computing could be realised in \u201cyears, not decades\u201d. This aligns with similar projections from Google and IBM, indicating that a transformative shift in computing technology may be closer than previously expected. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Majorana 1 chip integrates eight qubits \u2014 the essential units of quantum computing \u2014 onto a compact, sticky-note-sized piece of hardware. Microsoft envisions this chip as a stepping stone toward systems capable of supporting a million qubits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft introduced its first quantum computing chip on Wednesday, suggesting that quantum computing could be realised in \u201cyears, not decades\u201d. This aligns with similar projections from Google and IBM, indicating that a transformative shift in computing technology may be closer than previously expected. The company\u2019s Majorana 1 chip integrates eight qubits \u2014 the essential units of quantum computing \u2014 onto a compact, sticky-note-sized piece of hardware. Microsoft envisions this chip as a stepping stone toward systems capable of supporting a million qubits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}