Microsoft has revealed the year the first quantum computer will be ready

In a bold move that underscores its longstanding commitment to quantum computing, the Microsoft revealed its plans to build one Quantum supercomputer before 2033. This ambitious goal stems from the company’s ongoing research into topological qubits — an area in which Microsoft celebrated significant progress just last year.

Now, the American giant believes it can take a step from that achievement to developing a fully functional quantum supercomputer in less than ten years, according to Krista Sfor, Microsoft’s vice president of advanced quantum development.

As expected, Microsoft’s timeline for building a quantum supercomputer calls for more impressive technical breakthroughs and advances in various areas of quantum computing, including control mechanisms and noise reduction. In particular, Svore explains:

“Today, we are at this fundamental level. The next level we need to get to as an industry is the level of flexibility. We need to be able to work with not just physical qubits, but we need to take those physical qubits and put in debugging code and use it as a unit to function.” as logical qubits.”

To achieve its goal, Microsoft plans to expand the number of published qubits, enhance qubit stability for complex computations, and reduce the error rate. Its goal is to create a working quantum supercomputer One million quantum operations per second, with a failure rate of only one per trillion.

Although other tech giants such as IBM, Quantinuum, and Intel are competitors in this race, Microsoft’s achievement with topological qubits confirms its dominance in this field. But despite the promising start, the goal “before 2033” It is still very ambitious and it remains to be seen if it can actually be achieved.