The tech giant joins Google and IBM in predicting that a fundamental change in computing technology is much closer than recently believed. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new chip that it said showed quantum computing is “years,

Only a little more than a month after Google announced its Willow quantum computing chip, Microsoft is revealing its own. The Majorana 1, Microsoft says, makes use of a topoconductor, which is material that allows for more reliability and scalability from the chip’s qubits.

Majorana 1 relies on ‘topological superconductivity,’ a never-before-seen theoretical form of matter.