alt Hacker NewsI work in the field. While all players are selling a dream right now, this announcement is even more farcical. Majoranas are still trying to get to the point where they have even one qubit that could be said to exist and whose performance can be quantified.
The majorana approach (compared with more mature technologies like superconducting circuits or trapped ions) is a long game, where there are theoretical reasons to be optimistic, but where experimental reality is so far behind. It might work in the long run, but we're not there yet.
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>> I need HN's classic pessimism to know if this is something to be excited about. Please chime in!
> While all players are selling a dream right now, this announcement is even more farcical.
Thanks a lot, I didn't get disappointed.
So you are saying its official fake news from Redmond ?
Given that Microsoft has been a heavy research collaborator ( Atom and Quantinuum), is there a possibility that the cross pollination would make it harder to deliver a farcical majorana chip since microsoft isn't all in on their home rolled hardware choice?
I've held the same view that this stuff was sketchy because of the previous mistakes in recent history but I do not work in the field