{"id":238419,"date":"2026-06-05T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/microsoft-claims-new-quantum-chip-1000-times-better-than-before"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:08:56","slug":"microsoft-claims-new-quantum-chip-1000-times-better-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/microsoft-claims-new-quantum-chip-1000-times-better-than-before","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft claims new quantum chip 1,000 times better than before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-claims-new-quantum-chip-1000-times-better-than-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of quantum computing are qubits, which offer the promise of answering questions that defeat today\u2019s machines, but are notoriously delicate and unstable.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says the qubits on Majorana 2, its new chip, survive for an average of 20 seconds, rather than the milliseconds of Majorana 1.<\/p>\n<p>That means the new chip is 1,000 times more reliable \u2014 an improvement in performance the tech giant compares to the difference between a phone that needs charging every day to one which needs charging every few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of quantum computing are qubits, which offer the promise of answering questions that defeat today\u2019s machines, but are notoriously delicate and unstable. Microsoft says the qubits on Majorana 2, its new chip, survive for an average of 20 seconds, rather than the milliseconds of Majorana 1. That means the new chip is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238419","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}