June 16, 2026
In Focus: Microsoft's Majorana 2
Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 16, 2026. On June 2, at the close of its Build 2026 conference, Microsoft held up a small gold-and-blue chip and made a claim that would be hard to overstate. Its quantum bits, the company said, had become 1,000 times more reliable than the previous generation. One Microsoft technical fellow put it plainly from the stage: "We're 1,000 times better." The room und… Read More
by Phee Jay