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Microsoft’s Majorana-1: The "Transistor Moment" or Just High-Stakes Marketing?

Microsoft’s announcement of the Majorana-1 quantum chip has sent shockwaves through the technology industry. Chetan Nayak, Microsoft’s Technical Fellow and hardware lead, has dubbed this the “transistor for the quantum age.” The analogy is a heavy-weight gambit: just as the semiconductor transistor allowed computing to shrink from room-sized vacuum tubes to handheld smartphones, Microsoft claims…

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