India, Feb. 20 -- Microsoft on Wednesday released Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by the Topological Core architecture that the company expects will realise quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.

Announcing the same, CEO Satya Nadella said that after a 20-year pursuit, Microsoft has finally created an "entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing". This is apart from the existing states of matter - solid, liquid and gas.

The qubits, the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing, measure 1/100th of a milimetre. This means that Microsoft has now made way for a million-q...