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Microsoft has introduced Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a "Topological Core" architecture, potentially enabling powerful ...

Instead of silicon, Microsoft’s topoconductor is made of indium arsenide, a material currently used in such applications as infrared detectors and which has special properties. The semiconductor is ...

Major technological breakthroughs can, over time, create trillions in shareholder value. Quantum computing looks like one ...

Lumotive's Light Control Metasurface chips – example shown is smaller than a quarter – guide photons using the light-bending properties of metamaterial ...

To achieve smaller semiconductor structures, improved transistor designs are essential. Leading-edge fabs have been working ...

Microsoft’s quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor. A new paper in the journal Nature describes ...

But Microsoft said its new topoconductor -- made of a new material that combines indium arsenide (a semiconductor) and aluminum (a superconductor) -- can perform tasks with greater speed and ...

Microsoft Quantum and Purdue University researchers have made a major leap in quantum computing, publishing a paper in Nature ...

Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) will host its annual flagship user group conference, SNUG Silicon Valley, March 19-20, 2025, at ...

Microsoft (MSFT) is requesting the Trump administration to ease and simplify a new system which would curb the sales of advanced U.S. AI chips to a large part of the world.