{"id":207194,"date":"2025-02-24T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/darpa-microsoft-hail-quantum-chip-breakthrough"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:09:34","slug":"darpa-microsoft-hail-quantum-chip-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/darpa-microsoft-hail-quantum-chip-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"DARPA, Microsoft Hail Quantum Chip Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-microsoft-hail-quantum-chip-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, after teaming up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), last week unveiled a new chip that could fast-track the development of quantum computers and bring them into wider use within years instead of decades.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has developed Majorana 1 \u2013 a breakthrough material known as a topoconductor \u2013 putting the tech giant on track to build the world\u2019s first fault-tolerant prototype (FTP) of a scalable quantum computer within years \u2013 rather than decades.<\/p>\n<p>That breakthrough came as part of the final phase of DARPA\u2019s Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, after teaming up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), last week unveiled a new chip that could fast-track the development of quantum computers and bring them into wider use within years instead of decades. Microsoft has developed Majorana 1 \u2013 a breakthrough material known as a topoconductor \u2013 putting the tech giant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}