out of nowhere Microsoft just announced an impossible new Quantum Computing chip named Myer on a one but it’s not your average Quantum chip they claim to have created an entirely new state of matter so now we have solid liquid gas plasma and the new kit on the Block the too computer or topological supercomput it is entirely a new state of matter if it turns out not to be your typical Microsoft BS and that’s a big if it could be a breakthrough on par with the transistor.
The Humble transistor allowed computers to scale up to millions of bits and the Topo computer could be the technology that allows us to scale up to millions of cubits without exaggeration that would make computers billions of times faster than current Tech allowing us to do incredible things like develop new medicines ass simulate entire worlds of AI girlfriends and run Microsoft Windows updates in seconds instead of hours in today’s video we’ll look at.
the crazy science behind Microsoft’s Meer on a one ship and find out if it’ll finally make quantum computers not suck so much it is February 21st 2025 and you’re watching the code report one of the worst things that ever happened to me in my entire life was when I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista in 2007 it was a traumatizing experience but it changed my life and got me to start using Linux today my PTSD was triggered when I saw that Microsoft was hyping up this new Quantum chip because as of today it’s utterly useless for all practical purposes however it could be a significant breakthrough that gets us to quantum computers in years not decades according to CEO Saia Nutella this announcement comes just weeks after Google announced its Willow chip which itself is also useless but made a significant breakthrough. through an error correction rates what’s interesting though is that the Myer on one ship uses a fundamentally different architecture it’s based on the myeron a fon which is a subatomic particle that’s also its own antiparticle like an electron has a negative charge and then it has an opposite partner called a positron and when they meet they annihilate each other what’s weird about the maya particle though is that it’s like a mere image of itself there’s no positive or negative side and that makes it resistant to decoherence which is where things get really weird quantum computers rely on Quantum properties like superposition and entangle that allows cubits to represent.
the probability of multiple ones and zeros at the same time but the problem is that cubits are extremely delicate and affected by their environment through a process called Quantum decoherence they gradually lose these cool properties and collapse to a regular classical State it’s like trying to get a choir to sing in Perfect Harmony in a war zone that creates high error rates in quantum computers and what’s special about the myona feron is that it’s highly resistant to decoherence this weird subatomic particle was first theorized in 1937 but wasn’t actually observed until 2020 when researchers found them in islands of gold and actually Microsoft claimed to have seen them back in 2018 but they had to retract.
This research paper when it was found that they misrepresented the results but now just a few years later Microsoft is claiming they can not only observe them but also control them they released a paper describing topological Quantum Computing where they braid and fuse these particles together and then measure them all of which occurs on a nanowire that’s engineered atom by atom basically you have these myeron a zero modes at either end of the wire then to compute things they measure if there’s an even or odd number of electrons in the wire the end result is a new type of semiconductor called a topo conductor which is basically a superconductor semiconductor sandwich where the semiconductor mimics.
the superconductor and these can be chained together to scale up to millions of cubits on a small chip like this the chip does need to be kept at a temperature of near absolute zero and although they say it can scale up to millions of cubits they haven’t actually done that yet as of today it appears that Google and IBM are far ahead in the quantum Computing race but Microsoft played. the long game here and they’re really the only big company that’s taking the topological approach and if they’re not just overhyping it like the Microsoft Kin then it could actually change the world and that means as programmers will l need to rewrite every line of code to optimize for Quantum hardware and an awesome tool that can help you review all that code is code rabbit the sponsor of today’s video an AI co-pilot for code reviews.
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