Quantum Computing -shares rise as the new chip of Microsoft warms up the debate on technology

Reuters

Quantum Computing -shares rose on the market on Thursday after Microsoft had launched a new chip that indicated that the technology is not “decades away”, as stated by the top boss of AI Chip Bellwether Nvidia.

Microsoft revealed his Majorana 1 chip on Wednesday and said that it is less susceptible to errors than rivals, while the evidence provides in a scientific article published in Academic Journal Nature.

Quantum Computing means the promise to perform calculations that would take the current systems for millions of years. If it is successful, technology can also disrupt contemporary cyber security systems.

Shares of IONQ won 4.6%, Rigetti Computing 9.4%and D-Wave Quantum 8.7%, while those of smaller Peers Quantum Corp 4.8%and Quantum Computing added 8.8%.

Microsoft shares stood up by 0.3%, while Nvidia conquered 0.2%.

When quantum computers will arrive, a topic of debate has become in the upper echelons of the technical industry. Microsoft Together with alphabet and IBM, there are a growing camp of companies that believe that the practical use of technology is closer than before.

Quantum Computing Stocks became a hit at the beginning of January when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the technology was removed for two decades from overtaking the chips from his company, the work horses of artificial intelligence.

The shares registered monthly losses in January and ended a year -long rally, which made them perform better than the technically focused Nasdaq, as well as Nvidia and Microsoft.

This year, they have lost between 18% and 70% this year, compared to last year when they had risen at least triple.

(Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru; Edit by Arun Koyur)

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