The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company says marks a “transformative leap toward practical quantum computing.”

Microsoft and Google have made breakthroughs in quantum computing, a technology that could revolutionize drug discovery and other fields.

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.