Microsoft has unveiled a new quantum chip named Majorana 1 which it claims will be able to solve major, real-world problems within decades. Though others are skeptical of the claims, Microsoft adds that their new chip design involves manipulating an "entirely new state of matter".

At least, that's usually my reading of anything quantum computing related, and that seems to be the general gist of Microsoft's new quantum chip announcement. Microsoft says the new chip, the Microsoft Majorana 1,