CEO Satya Nadella made a bold statement on the earnings call, saying, "The next big accelerator in the cloud will be quantum, and I'm excited about progress. In fact, earlier this month, we announced the world's first operational deployment of a level two quantum computer with Atom Computing." What Microsoft is doing with quantum computing Following in the footsteps of Alphabet, Microsoft announced its new Majorana 1 quantum chip in February, saying it's powered by a new Topological Core architecture, which ...

Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Feynman, by the way, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. If he said no one understood quantum mechanics, then no one understood quantum mechanics. I bring this up for two reasons. First, quantum computing -- one of the hottest technologies around right now -- is based on quantum mechanics. Second, Warren Buffett has been credited with saying, "Nev ...