Microsoft has canceled its data center contracts and Trump’s tariff plans are increasingly complicating the AI narrative, especially for semiconductor companies that derive a good portion of their revenue from China.

Morgan Stanley issued a forecast suggesting Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms could spend a combined $300 billion on data center infrastructure and chips to power their artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions during 2025.

Microsoft has introduced Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a "Topological Core" architecture, potentially enabling powerful quantum computers within years instead of decades. The breakthrough stems from a newly developed material called a topoconductor,

Its Majorana 1 chip, made of a new material, can perform high-level computing tasks with greater speed and accuracy, Microsoft says.

Microsoft sees a path to million qubit quantum computers within years via an entirely new kind of quantum computer using a new kind of matter: topological superconductors.

Microsoft said its new quantum chip leverages the world’s first topoconductor — a completely new class of materials.

Microsoft's quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor. "The difficulty of developing the right materials to create the exotic particles and their associated ...

Majorana 1 relies on ‘topological superconductivity,’ a never-before-seen theoretical form of matter.

Microsoft Quantum published an article in Nature on Feb. 19 detailing recent advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological

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Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company has spent nearly two decades of research in the field.