Microsoft and Azure Quantum Seem Poised for a new kind of Supercomputer to arrive in the early 2030s

A new kind of supercomputer, in a decade or less?

Hey Everyone,

Recently Microsoft announced new advances to Azure Quantum aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. Given Microsoft’s initiatives such as AI4Science, and it’s bleeding edge research in topological qubits, I tend to take Microsoft a bit more seriously than some other names.

So what’s all the fuss about?

Microsoft says it has achieved an important physics breakthrough representing the first milestone in its long-term initiative to build a quantum supercomputer capable of solving some of the world’s most difficult problems. Among other things! It’s a PR avalanche for a company that could marry Quantum, supercomputers and Generative A.I. in a fairly interesting way sometime in the next decade.

A peer-reviewed paper in Physical Review B, a journal of the American Physical Society, confirmed that the company’s approach can create and control Majorana, a type of particle considered key to the future creation of scalable and stable qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information.

This is indeed worthy of our attention.