I honestly cannot wait to find out more about this as the National Labs fall under my Committees jurisdiction and I have a meeting with two of them tomorrow to discuss their AI programs. Microsoft now joins Google, IBM, and Quantum stocks in now having a chip.

Microsoft’s quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor. While this chip wont be for commercial use (wont be used in the company's Azure public cloud and they have a new custom AI chip Maia 100 for that) this chip is a huge step for Microsoft that is 20 years in the making.

I was surprised to learn that Microsoft will be building these inhouse as opposed to using Taiwan Semiconductor or another chip manufacturing but given that they are only going to be made on a small scale it does make sense.