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Microsoft just announced a new quantum computing chip called Majorana 1. It is the first chip capable of topological quantum computing
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Microsoft just announced a new quantum computing chip called Majorana 1. It is the first chip capable of topological quantum computing
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Majorana Announcement https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/
Google Willow Chip https://youtu.be/IJHrPjx4egM
Tech Trends 2025 https://youtu.be/v4H2fTgHGuc
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00:00Out of nowhere, Microsoft just announced an impossible new quantum computing chip named
00:04Mirona-1. But it's not your average quantum chip. They claim to have created an entirely
00:09new state of matter. So now we have solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and the new kid on the block,
00:14the topo-computer, or topological supercomputer. It is entirely a new state of matter.
00:20If it turns out not to be your typical Microsoft BS, and that's a big if, it could be a breakthrough
00:25on par with the transistor. The humble transistor allowed computers to scale up to millions of bits,
00:30and the topo-computer could be the technology that allows us to scale up to millions of qubits.
00:34Without exaggeration, that would make computers billions of times faster than current tech,
00:39allowing us to do incredible things like develop new medicines, assimilate entire
00:43worlds of AI girlfriends, and run Microsoft Windows updates in seconds instead of hours.
00:47In today's video, we'll look at the crazy science behind Microsoft's Mirona-1 chip,
00:52and find out if it'll finally make quantum computers not suck so much.
00:55It is February 21st, 2025, and you're watching The Code Report. One of the worst things that
01:00ever happened to me in my entire life was when I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista in 2007.
01:05It was a traumatizing experience, but it changed my life and got me to start using Linux. Today,
01:09my PTSD was triggered when I saw that Microsoft was hyping up this new quantum chip, because as
01:13of today, it's utterly useless for all practical purposes. However, it could be a significant
01:18breakthrough that gets us to quantum computers in years, not decades, according to CEO Saudia
01:23Nutella. This announcement comes just weeks after Google announced its Willow chip, which itself is
01:27also useless, but made a significant breakthrough in error correction rates. What's interesting though
01:32is that the Mirona-1 chip uses a fundamentally different architecture. It's based on the
01:36Mirona-Fermion, which is a subatomic particle that's also its own antiparticle. Like, an
01:41electron has a negative charge, and then it has an opposite partner called a positron, and when
01:45they meet, they annihilate each other. What's weird about the Mirona particle though is that
01:49it's like a mirror image of itself. There's no positive or negative side, and that makes it
01:53resistant to decoherence, which is where things get really weird. Quantum computers rely on quantum
01:57properties like superposition and entanglement. That allows qubits to represent the probability
02:02of multiple ones and zeros at the same time. But the problem is that qubits are extremely delicate
02:07and affected by their environment. Through a process called quantum decoherence, they gradually
02:11lose these cool properties and collapse to a regular classical state. It's like trying to get
02:16a choir to sing in perfect harmony in a war zone. That creates high error rates in quantum computers,
02:21and what's special about the Mirona-Fermion is that it's highly resistant to decoherence.
02:25This weird subatomic particle was first theorized in 1937, but wasn't actually observed until 2020
02:30when researchers found them in Islands of Gold. And actually, Microsoft claimed to have seen them
02:35back in 2018, but they had to retract this research paper when it was found that they
02:39misrepresented the results. But now, just a few years later, Microsoft is claiming they can not
02:43only observe them, but also control them. They released a paper describing topological quantum
02:48computing, where they braid and fuse these particles together and then measure them,
02:51all of which occurs on a nanowire that's engineered atom by atom. Basically, you have these
02:56Mirona zero modes at either end of the wire. Then to compute things, they measure if there's an even
03:01or odd number of electrons in the wire. The end result is a new type of semiconductor called a
03:06topoconductor, which is basically a superconductor semiconductor sandwich where the semiconductor
03:11mimics the superconductor. And these can be chained together to scale up to millions of
03:15qubits on a small chip like this. The chip does need to be kept at a temperature of near absolute
03:19zero, and although they say it can scale up to millions of qubits, they haven't actually done
03:23that yet. As of today, it appears that Google and IBM are far ahead in the quantum computing race,
03:28but Microsoft played the long game here, and they're really the only big company that's taking
03:32the topological approach. And if they're not just overhyping it like the Microsoft kin,
03:36then it could actually change the world. And that means us programmers will need to rewrite
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04:16thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.