Last week saw some bad news for Googles quantum computing lab, but this week Microsoft seems to be picking up the slack. The company first launched its quantum research wing back in 2006, but according to a new report in The New York Times, Microsoft has made some crucial hires in recent days, hiring Intels Douglas Carmean to work on the growing quantum hardware design group. The efforts are still very preliminary, but the hope is that, by the time researchers have a working model for an anyon-based qubit, Microsoft will have a hardware design that can hold them.
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